Lakshya Sen will face Viktor Axelsen in the badminton singles semi-final match at Paris Olympics 2024.
Lakshya Sen Semifinal Match Paris Olympics 2024: While India has won all the medals in the shooting events so far in the Paris Olympics 2024, there is hope of winning a medal in badminton as well. India’s 22-year-old player Lakshya Sen, who is participating in the men’s singles, has had a great journey from the group stage to the quarter-finals, in which he has confirmed his place in the semi-finals of this event. However, this match is not going to be easy for Lakshya at all, in which he will face Denmark’s player Viktor Axelsen, who won the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics. Lakshya won the match by making a brilliant comeback in the next two sets after losing the first set against Chou Tian Chen of Chinese Taipei on 2 August in the quarter-final match.
Lakshya will play his semi-final match on August 4 at this time
Lakshya Sen will play his semi-final match in the men’s badminton singles at the Paris Olympics 2024 on August 4 at 12 noon Indian time. He will face Viktor Axelsen, one of the legendary players in the world of badminton, who has so far finished all the matches played till the quarter-finals in this Olympics within just 2 sets. Viktor Axelsen also won the gold medal in the last Olympics played in Tokyo.
So far Lakshya has played 8 matches against Victor
If we look at Lakshya Sen’s head to head record against Viktor Axelsen, it is not very special in which he has faced Viktor in 8 matches so far. Out of this, Lakshya has been able to beat Viktor Axelsen only once, which came in the German Open held in the year 2022. Lakshya won this match 21-13, 12-21 and 22-20. At the same time, the last encounter between the two players took place in the Singapore Badminton Open 2024 in May this year, in which Viktor defeated Lakshya 21-13, 16-21 and 21-13.
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