Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen bows out of Arctic Open Super 500 tournament

Star Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen squander a one-game vantage to lose to Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei in pre-quarterfinals of Arctic Open bminton tournament here on Thursday.

23-year-old toiled hard for one hour 10 minutes before going down 21-19 18-21 15-21 to his seventh seed opponent in second round of Super 500 tournament.

It was a b in office for India as all shuttlers from country me second round exits.

Indian qualifier Kiran George, who h defeated World No 25 Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese Taipei on Wednesday, was brushed aside 17-21 8-21 by fifth seed Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in men's singles event.

Malvika Bansod meekly surrendered (15-21 8-21) to Ratchanok Intanon in women's singles contest.

Unnati Hooda and Aakarshi Kashyap also lost ir respective round of 16 games.

Unnati went down 10-21 19-21 to Cana's Michelle Li, Aakarshi lost 9-21 8-21 to second seed Han Yue of China.

mixed doubles pair of Sathish Kumar Karunakaran and Aya Variyath lost 12-21 15-21 to Chinese combine of Cheng Xing and Zhang Chi .

women's doubles pair of Rutaparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda will take on top seeds Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning later in day.