Badminton | Lakshya lives up to his promise
The Hindu
‘To end the season with a worlds bronze feels great’
Lakshya Sen was always marked out for big success. But to have a world championship podium finish as your breakthrough performance is the stuff of dreams.
Following a career-defining week in Huelva (Spain), where he secured a historic bronze at the BWF World Championships and rose to a career-best singles ranking of 17, the 20-year-old is brimming with confidence.
“To end the season with a worlds bronze feels great,” Lakshya said, here on Thursday. “It was really tough in the last two tournaments. But they were the biggest, the World Championship and the World Tour Finals. I was motivated to go all out.”
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