Canada, 9/7: Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen stormed into the final of the Canada Open Super 500 badminton tournament with a straight-game win over Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto here.
Sen, who has slipped to world number 19 after struggling to find his form early in the season, saw off the world number 11 Japanese 21-17 21-14 to enter his only second Super 500 final and first BWF summit clash in over a year.
The 21-year-old Indian, who claimed a bronze at the 2021 World Championships, will face China’s Li Shi Feng in the final on Sunday.
Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, however, couldn’t produce her top game and went down 14-21 15-21 to world no. 1 Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in her women’s singles semifinal.