Lakshya Sen Bags Gold In Badminton Asia Junior Championship

Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched gold medal in the men’s singles category of the Asia Junior Championships at Jakarta in Indonesia on Sunday.

The sixth seed registered a straight forward 21-19, 21-18 victory in 46 minutes over Thai top seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the Under-19 final.

With the win, Lakshya became only the third Indian after Gautam Thakkar (1965) and P.V. Sindhu (2012) to pocket a gold medal at the Asia Junior Championships