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18-year-old Garret Tan stuns Lakshya Sen at BWF World Championships
American teenager Garret Tan, ranked 93rd in the world, knocked out India's Lakshya Sen in the second round of the BWF World Championships on Wednesday. Tan won a three-set thriller 19-21, 21-19, 21-17 in 73 minutes. Sen, the 14th seed and a former bronze medallist, praised Tan as the better player on the day.
Tan, 18, revealed after the match that he had already booked his return flight for Friday, the day of the quarter-finals. He said he trains alone in Los Angeles without a full-time coach, though his childhood coach is present as the USA team manager. Tan spent two weeks in Taiwan before the tournament.
Sen said he spent most of the match playing catch-up and gave Tan full credit. Tan faces 2023 world champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the next round. If he wins, he will play on the day his flight was scheduled.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Both outlets frame Tan's backstory of booking a Friday flight and training alone as the central human-interest angle. Sports.ndtv.com leads with the flight detail and calls it the biggest win of Tan's career. Timesnownews.com adds more texture: Tan's self-coaching, his two-week Taiwan stint, and Sen's praise. Neither outlet is critical of the Indian player or the tournament organisers. The coverage is uniformly neutral-report, focusing on the upset and the teenager's unusual preparation. A careful reader should note Tan's ranking (93) versus Sen's seeding (14), the flight detail as a narrative hook, and the upcoming match against a top seed.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): sports.ndtv.com (neutral report), timesnownews.com (neutral report)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Methodology and corrections.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
