Lakshya Sen vs Jonatan Christie Highlights, All England Open: Christie defeats Sen 21-12, 10-21, 21-15

Here’s a detailed look at how the Lakshya Sen-Jonatan Christie All England semi-final panned out:

Jonathan Christie defeats Lakshya Sen 21-12, 10-21, 21-15 and sets up an all-Indonesian men’s singles final with Anthony Ginting!

Lakshya tries to delay the inevitable by collecting three points in a row after Christie has eight match points in hand, but ends up hitting the shuttle to the net for the contest to finally come to an end after a little over an hour!

With Sen’s defeat, the Indian challenge in Birmingham finally comes to an end!

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 14-20 Jonatan Christie

Sen delays Christie’s victory by winning the next two points. Christie however, still have six match points in hand!

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 12-20 Jonatan Christie

Lakshya’s not giving up just yet, engaging Christie in a fast-paced rally that ends with a smash from the Indian that flies over the sideline to the Indonesian’s right side. Christie collects another point thereafter, and has eight match points in hand at the moment!

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 12-18 Jonatan Christie

It’s safe to say that this is Christie’s game to lose now, with the Indonesian leading by six points now and needing just three more to enter the final, where he awaits compatriot Anthony Ginting.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 12-15 Jonatan Christie

Excellent review by Lakshya after Christie decides to go for a leave and the shot is ruled to be ‘Out’. Turns out the shuttle landed on the line to Christie’s left. Lakshya’s trailing by three points in the business end of the semi-final!

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 10-14 Jonatan Christie

Sen and Christie collect two points each after the mid-game break, with the latter still maintaining a three-point lead over the Indian! Christie later responds with a fiery smash aimed at the body that Lakshya can only deflect wide in his own half.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 8-11 Jonatan Christie

Lakshya loses a review after a smash goes wide, and is trailing Christie by three points at the halfway stage in the decider!

The pendulum suddenly has swung back in the Indonesian’s favour in what has been an enthralling semi-final so far! And the way things have panned out so far, the decider might just go down the wire!

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 7-8 Jonatan Christie

Sen restores the lead with a booming 280 kmph smash that Christie can only get the edge of his racquet to for a deflection. Christie, however, fights back by winning the next two points.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 6-6 Jonatan Christie

Sen and Christie decide to slow the pace of the game with an extended 63-shot rally featuring long hits, which ends when the Indonesian decides to drop one short of Sen near the service line. The two are going neck-and-neck in the decider at the moment.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 6-3 Jonatan Christie

Christie goes level with Sen with a long shot that lands just inside the backline, with the Indian incorrectly going for a leave. Sen however, wins the next three points in a row through back-to-back smashes followed by Christie’s return hitting the centre of the net.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10, 3-1 Jonatan Christie

It’s the Indian who seizes the lead in the decider, reeling off three points in a row! He then hands the serve back to Christie with a smash that lands wide of the right sideline.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 21-10 Jonatan Christie

It’s one-all in the men’s singles semi-final between Sen and Christie, with the Indian bouncing back in clinical fashion to win the second game after conceding the first one!

One can safely assume the momentum’s with Lakshya at the moment heading into the final game.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 20-10 Jonatan Christie

Christie manages to move to double digits to show he’s not been completely dominated in the second game, collecting his 10th point with a smash that Lakshya isn’t able to respond to on time. He, however, sends the next one wide to give Lakshya 10 game points!

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 18-7 Jonatan Christie

Christie’s showing signs of fighting back, but Sen’s on the verge of sealing the second game. Sen responds to a smash from Christie with a neat little return around his back, but ends up hitting the shuttle to the net while trying to repeat the tricky shot.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 16-4 Jonatan Christie

Sen’s absolutely bossing Game 2 at the moment, with his lead over Christie now in double-digits! Sen fires a smash at Christie, and the latter can only hit the shuttle to the net, taking the Indian’s lead to 12!

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 11-3 Jonatan Christie

Lakshya’s leading by eight points at the halfway stage of Game 2, and is in a solid position to go level with the Indonesian at one-all! Christie appears to be struggling primarily due to his own impatience that is leading to a flurry of errors.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 9-3 Jonatan Christie

The change of ends appears to have worked wonders for Sen, who suddenly opens up a six-point lead on Christie at 7-3! There’s plenty of Indian support at the venue as well with chants of “Jeetega bhai jeetega, India jeetega!” ringing around the stands. Christie also loses a review after his shot goes wide of the sideline.

Lakshya Sen 12-21, 3-2 Jonatan Christie

Sen appears to have put the defeat in the first game behind and starts off on a spirited note, winning the first two points. Christie then wins the next two to go level with his opponent before Sen restores the slender lead with some deft net play.

Here’s how the first Game panned out:

Lakshya Sen 12-21 Jonatan Christie

Sen attempts a smash of his own, only for the shuttle to land wide to Christie’s right, giving the Indonesian eight game points. Christie then seals the deal with a cross-court smash from the net to win Game 1 and have one foot in the final!

Lakshya Sen 10-18 Jonatan Christie

Christie’s leading by eight points now, with Sen finding it increasingly difficult to deal with the Indonesian’s booming smashes! Sen had collected back-to-back points to reduce the deficit to five but then would concede three in a row to his opponent.

Lakshya Sen 9-15 Jonatan Christie

Christie’s zooming ahead at the moment and Game 1 appears headed in one direction only! Sen attempts a deft little drop shot but isn’t able to clear the net. Christie however, sends one wide towards the backline to hand a point to Sen.

Lakshya Sen 7-11 Jonatan Christie

Christie’s opened up a four-point lead at the halfway stage of the first game, and appears to be a strong favourite to take a 1-0 lead tonight! Sen, attempts a cross-court clearance only for the shuttle cock to fly wide.

Lakshya Sen 6-6 Jonatan Christie

The two are going neck-and-neck at the moment. Just when Sen appears to be moving ahead, Christie’s somehow able to keep pace with him.

Lakshya Sen 4-4 Jonatan Christie

Sen tries to make Christie hop to and fro from one end of the court to the other, but the latter quickly smothers the challenge with a smash to go level with Sen at 4-4!

Lakshya Sen 2-1 Jonatan Christie

Christie draws first blood, but Sen manages to claw back with two quick points on the bounce!

Lakshya Sen 0-0 Jonatan Christie

Lakshya Sen will begin the serve. Plenty of Indian support at the venue judging by the chants.

Lakshya Sen and Jonatan Christie are in the house and make their way to the centre in grand style, with their semi-final clash about to get started any minute now!

Lakshya Sen vs Jonatan Christie head to head:

Christie won: 2

Sen won: 1

Akane Yamaguchi is through to the All England 2024 Women’s Singles final! She staves off a spirited fightback from Korea’s An Se Young to win the encounter 21-10, 19-21, 21-14!

Lakshya Sen vs Jonatan Christie is up next and should start in a couple of minutes from now!

The match goes to a decider! Terrific fightback from Korea’s An Se Young, winning the second game 21-19 after losing the first one against Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi 21-10!

Can An pull off a miraculous victory from here, even if she’s nearly out of gas and is struggling with her fitness at present? Stay tuned to find out

Akane Yamaguchi takes the first game against An Se Young 21-10!

Can the Japanese shuttler seal the deal in the second game? Or will the Korean take the contest to a decider? Stay tuned to find out!

Baek Ha Na-Lee So Hee are through to the women’s doubles final, where they face Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida, following their 21-17, 18-21, 21-16 victory over Kim So-Yeong-Kong Hee Yong in an all-Korean final.

Next up, we have Korea’s An Se Young facing Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi in the first women’s singles semi-final clash of the day. That will then be followed by the Lakshya Sen-Jonatan Christie encounter.

The women’s doubles semi-final between Kim So Yeong-Kong Hee Yong and Baek Ha Na-Lee So Hee has gone into a decider! Baek-Lee took the first gme 21-17, only for Kim-Kong to bounce back and win the next one 21-18.

Which Korean pair will scrape through to the final? Stay tuned to find out.

Next up, we have the second women’s doubles encounter — an all-Korean affair — with Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong squaring off against Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee.

That will be followed by the Women’s Singles clash between An Se Young and Akane Yamaguchi before the Lakshya-Jonatan encounter gets underway.

Anthony Ginting is through to the final! So we have one Indonesian confirmed for the men’s singles final.

Ginting loses the first game of the semi-final clash against Christo Popov 19-21, but roars back in style to take the next two games 21-5, 21-11 and confirm his place in Sunday’s final.

He now awaits the winner of the other semi-final clash between compatriot Jonatan Christie and Lakshya Sen. Will it be an all Indonesian final? Or will Lakshya keep the Indian flag flying high till Sunday?

Lakshya Sen at the All England Open Badminton Championships (Men’s Singles):

2020 — 2nd Round

2021 — Quarter-finals

2022 — Runner-up

2023 — 2nd Round

We have the first result of the day, with the Japanese pair of Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida defeating compatriots Rena Miyaura and Ayako Sakuramoto 21-15, 21-21 to progress to the women’s doubles final, where they await the winner of the other semi-final clash — an all Korean contest between Kim So Yeong-Kong Hee Yong and Baek Ha Na-Lee So Hee.

The first men’s singles semi-final clash of the day is currently underway with Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting facing France’s Christo Popov.