NEW DELHI: Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen on Wednesday cruised into the second round of the Indonesia Open World Tour Super 1000 event in Jakarta. Facing off against Malaysia's Zii Jia Lee, Lakshya secured a one-sided straight games win.
Ranked 20th in the world, Lakshya triumphed over Lee 21-17, 21-13 in the contest that lasted just 32 minutes.
Lakshya will next face compatriot Kidambi Srikanth, who beat Guang Zu Lu of China 21-13 21-19 in his first round match.
Another Indian Priyanshu Rajawat got a walkover from Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand to seal his place in the next round.
Rajawat, however, has a tough second round tie as he set to face the winner of the match between Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittnghus of Denmark and second seed local shuttler Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.
The other Indian in men's singles fray is HS Prannoy who will take on Hong Kong's Angus Ng Ka Long in the second round.
However, it was curtains for young Indian female shuttler Aakarshi Kashyap as she crashed out in the opening round of women's singles.
Kashyap was no match for second seed An Se young of Korea, losing 10-21 4-21.
