BENGALURU: Indian badminton ace Lakshya Sen's plans to defend his title at this week's Canada Open, a BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament, came to a nought because his application for a visa got stuck at the High Commission of Canada in New Delhi.
The delay forced Lakshya, who was hoping to get some valuable match practice ahead of the Paris Olympics, to pull out of the tournament now on in Calgary. This will also result in him dropping valuable ranking points, which could even affect his seeding when the draw for the Group Stages of the Olympics - which considers the rankings as on July 9 - is held at the BWF headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on July 12.
