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18-year-old Indian badminton player Lakshya Sen admitted that although winning the Dutch Open is the biggest title of his career, he now wants to push on and break into the top 30 rankings by early next year. Meanwhile, Sen is looking to find a balanced training routine that keeps from injury.

PV Sindhu and Sai Praneeth advanced to the second round of the Denmark Open with wins in straight games, while Korea Open semi-finalist Parupalli Kashyap crashed out. Among the doubles, the duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won their duel, also in straight games, on Tuesday.

Indian badminton had a great day in office as young Priyanshu Rajawat staged a stunning comeback to get the better of Jason Anthony Ho-Shue 16-21, 21-7, 21-12 in the final of the Bahrain International Series. The doubles pair of Juhi Dewangan and Venkat Gaurav Prasad also lifted the title.

Indian shuttlers Lakshya Sen and BM Rahul Bharadwaj will take on each other after they progressed to the quarterfinals of the men’s singles event at the Dutch Open Super 100 tournament in Almere on Thursday. Meanwhile, top seed Sameer Verma was knocked out by Japan’s Yusuke Onodera.

India’s campaign at the ongoing BWF World Junior Championships in Kazan, Russia, came to an end after all the singles and doubles players crashed out before the quarter-final stage. Aditi Bhatt, who was playing girl’s singles and doubles events, was knocked out of both in straight games.