Indian badminton player Lakshya Sen started his campaign in the Paris Olympics with a win. Lakshya made a winning start by defeating Kevin Cordon 21-8, 22-20 in the men's singles match. Lakshya's performance against world number 41 player Cordon in the Group L match was strong. However, this player from Guatemala tried to compete with world number 18 player Lakshya in the second game, but in the end Lakshya made a comeback and won this game as well in a one-sided manner.

Will face Karagi

2022 Commonwealth Games and 2021 World Championship bronze medalist Lakshya Sen will face Belgium's Julian Karagi in his second match of the group.

Lakshya performed strongly in the first game

22-year-old Lakshya, participating in his first Olympics, started the match brilliantly, scoring five consecutive points to take a 5-0 lead. The Indian player was ahead 11-2 till the break. Even after the break, Lakshya maintained his dominance and took the score to 18-5. Lakshya scored 12 game points with a cross court smash at a score of 19-8 and then Kevin hit a shot out of the court to give the first game to the Indian player.

Kevin made a comeback

Kevin started the second game better and took a 4-1 lead. Taking advantage of Lakshya's mistakes, Kevin went ahead 11-6 at the break. Lakshya hit many shots on and off the net during this time. The Guatemalan player hit some powerful smashes and good shots to increase his lead to 15-8. Lakshya then made a strong comeback and won the game and the match 22-20 with six consecutive points at a score of 16-20.