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While India has won all the medals in shooting events so far at the Paris Olympics 2024, it is also expected to win medals in badminton. 22-year-old Indian player Lakshya Sen, competing in men's singles, has had a great journey so far from the group stage to the quarter-finals and has confirmed his place in the semi-finals of the event.
It is not an easy match for Lakshya Sen, who will face Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Viktor Axelsen. After losing the first set against Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinal match on August 2, Lakshya made a brilliant comeback in the next two sets to win the match.
Lakshya Sen will play the semi-final match on August 4
Lakshya Sen will play his semi-final match in men's badminton singles at Paris Olympics 2024 on August 4 at 12 noon IST. In this Olympics, he will face one of the greatest badminton players in the world, Viktor Axelsen, who has finished all his matches in just 2 sets till the quarter-finals. Viktor Axelsen also won the gold medal in the last Olympics held in Tokyo.
Lakshya Sen has played 8 matches against Victor
If we look at Lakshya Sen's head to head record against Viktor Axelsen, it is nothing special, he has faced Viktor in 8 matches so far. Out of these, Lakshya has been able to beat Viktor Axelsen only once, which came in the German Open in the year 2022. Lakshya won this match 21-13, 12-21 and 22-20. The last encounter between the two players took place in May this year at the Singapore Badminton Open 2024, in which Viktor defeated Lakshya 21-13, 16-21 and 21-13.