Lakshya Sen Badminton
2026 Results, Match by Match

Daihatsu Japan Open 2026

Super 750・Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium

🏓He lost the first round on 15 July to 🇯🇵Koki Watanabe, 16-21, 14-21 in 38 minutes. Watanabe went on to reach the final that week and finished runner-up. Our tournament page writes the line from Watanabe's side as 21-16, 21-14, and the Japanese specialist outlet Badminton Spirit records the same result and the same 38 minutes.

China Open 2026

Super 1000・Changzhou, China

🏓He beat 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka 22-20, 15-21, 21-14 in 53 minutes in the first round on 22 July, then lost the second round on 23 July to Victor Lai (CAN, 8th seed), 19-21, 11-21 in 46 minutes. Our tournament page writes that one from Lai's side as 21-19, 21-11. ⚡He had already played Tanaka in the Australian Open final eight months earlier (see The two against Japan).

BWF World Championships 2026

World Championships・New Delhi, India

⚠️We hold no score at all from this championship. Our tournament page carries one line, on 18 August, saying he came through, and never says that it ended the following day. 🔢The official BWF day data has him playing twice as the 14th seed, winning one and losing one: he beat Collins Valentine Filimon (AUT) 16-21, 21-8, 21-4 in 45 minutes in the first round on 18 August, then lost the second round on 19 August to Garret Tan (USA), 21-19, 19-21, 17-21 in 73 minutes (see The event that vanished). It was his home championship.

China Masters 2026

Super 750・Shenzhen, China

🏓He lost the first round on 2 September to Victor Lai (CAN) — the same opponent as 23 July — 14-21, 7-21 in 38 minutes. The second meeting was shorter, and he took fewer points (see Beaten twice by one player). Our tournament page carries it among the upsets of 2 September outside the Japanese entries, and writes the score the same way round as this page does.

The four matches we recorded score by score for Lakshya Sen in 2026 are one win and three defeats (his Asian Games 2026 match on 26 September is not in this count). All four fall inside the seven weeks from 15 July to 2 September, so his All England runner-up finish in March is not among them. Count the same four events in the official BWF day data and there are six matches, two won and four lost.

• 🔻15 July, Daihatsu Japan Open first round: 🇯🇵Koki Watanabe, 16-21, 14-21 in 38 minutes. Our tournament page writes it from Watanabe's side as 21-16, 21-14. Watanabe reached the final that week.
• ✅22 July, China Open first round: 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka, 22-20, 15-21, 21-14 in 53 minutes. It is the only win among the four we hold, and the only one that went to three games.
• 🔻23 July, China Open second round: Victor Lai (CAN, 8th seed), 19-21, 11-21 in 46 minutes. Our tournament page writes it from Lai's side as 21-19, 21-11. Lai went to the semi-finals that week.
• 🔻2 September, China Masters first round: the same Victor Lai, 14-21, 7-21 in 38 minutes. Three of the four ended in two games.
• 📊Only three opponents appear across the four: Koki Watanabe, Yushi Tanaka and Victor Lai, and Lai twice.
• 🔎We do not treat "one win, three defeats" as a record. It is what our four from 15 July to 2 September contain, not his 2026.

All four come from our own tournament pages and were checked point by point against the official BWF day data; three of them also match the reports on Badminton Spirit. We do not rank players against each other and we do not hold career head-to-heads.

🔻Two of the three defeats we hold came against the same player, Victor Lai of Canada: the China Open second round on 23 July and the China Masters first round on 2 September, 41 days apart.

• 🏸The first, on 23 July: 19-21, 11-21 in 46 minutes. The opening game was decided by two points.
• 🏸The second, on 2 September: 14-21, 7-21 in 38 minutes. It was eight minutes shorter, and his points fell from 30 to 21.
• 🥉Between the two, in August, Victor Lai took bronze at the 2026 World Championships as the 7th seed. On his page the 23 July meeting appears as a win: the same points, the other way round.
• 📄We do not write reasons. Two scores and two clock times sit here; we do not turn them into a ranking of players.
• 🔎Holding both is not luck. Our tournament pages carry the matches where a seed moved. The first was an 8th seed winning; the second was listed among the upsets of 2 September. Both fell inside that rule.

Scores are from Sen's point of view, and the times come from the official BWF day data, which agrees point for point with our tournament pages.

🇯🇵Two of the four we hold are against Japanese players, one won and one lost. He lost to Koki Watanabe on 15 July and beat Yushi Tanaka a week later, on 22 July.

• ⚡He had already met Tanaka in the final of the 2025 Australian Open (Super 500) on 23 November 2025, winning the title 21-15, 21-11 in 38 minutes. The report on Badminton Spirit and English Wikipedia give the same score.
• 📅We have no summary page for that final. Our tournament pages cover 2026 events only — all 48 of them start on 20 May 2026 or later — so it does not appear on Yushi Tanaka's page either.
• 🔁The same two players met twice eight months apart: once in a final, once in the first round of a Super 1000.
• 🇯🇵The 15 July defeat was the first step of Watanabe's run to the final. On his page the same match opens a set of five.

We do not hold career head-to-heads. What is listed here are individual results confirmed in published sources.

🔢Building this page, we pulled the official BWF day data for all four events, date by date, and counted his matches against ours. BWF has him playing six matches. We hold a score for four of them, so the difference is two — and both belong to the 2026 World Championships.

• 🏸18 August, first round: beat Collins Valentine Filimon (AUT) 16-21, 21-8, 21-4 in 45 minutes, from a game down, conceding only four points in the decider.
• 🏸19 August, second round: lost to Garret Tan (USA) 21-19, 19-21, 17-21 in 73 minutes. The 14th seed was out there.
• 🔴One of the two is a win and one is a defeat. Nothing is skewed by result. What is skewed is the unit: one of the four events is missing whole.
• 📄Our 2026 World Championships page records not one of his matches. It carries a line under 18 August saying that "Lakshya Sen (IND, 14th seed), at home, came through". It gives no score, and never says that it ended the next day.
• 🔎So a reader who only reads us cannot tell how far he went at his home championship. Our page stops at "came through". Nothing there is wrong, and yet the impression it leaves is not what happened.
• 🔢Only counting tells you whether something is missing. Existing checks can say whether what we wrote is right, but a match we never wrote has nothing to compare against, so every check stays green. The two above rest on the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia, so we do not count them among the matches we recorded.

Both were checked against the official BWF day data and the draw on English Wikipedia, and the scores and the direction agree. The seeding list on English Wikipedia also records the 14th seed, Lakshya Sen, as second round.

• 2026 — All England Open (Super 1000) runner-up
  Birmingham, 8 March. He lost the final to Lin Chun-yi (TPE), 15-21, 20-22 in 57 minutes. The report on the Japanese specialist outlet Badminton Spirit gives the same score and the same 57 minutes, and the previous-winner panel on our 2027 All England page records the same final as Lin's title. ⚠️We have no summary page for the 2026 All England, so none of that week appears in the results cards above.
• 2026 — World No. 12 in men's singles, dated 8 September 2026
  The official BWF ranking page for men's singles (Week 37) gives twelfth with 65,573 points, up one place on the previous week, and the Badminton Spirit list dated 8 September agrees on both, adding 21 counting tournaments. ⚠️World rankings move every week, so this is a dated record. We do not assert a career high: two sources both say sixth but date it 8 November 2022 and 31 October 2023.
• 2025 — Australian Open (Super 500) title
  Sydney, 23 November. He beat 🇯🇵Yushi Tanaka 21-15, 21-11 in 38 minutes in the final. The Badminton Spirit report and English Wikipedia give the same score. ⚠️We have no summary page for the 2025 season, so it does not appear in the results cards above.
• 2023 — Canada Open title
  Badminton Spirit headlined a ranking article on 12 July 2023 with his Canada Open title and a seven-place rise, and English Wikipedia records the same 2023 Canada Open win, naming Li Shifeng (CHN) as the beaten finalist at 21-18, 22-20. ⚠️Only English Wikipedia carries that score and that name, so we cite it for reference only.
• 2022 — India Open (Super 500) title
  New Delhi, 17 January. He beat the reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew (SGP) in the final, 24-22, 21-17 in 54 minutes, and Badminton Spirit called it his first title at this level of the tour. The report and English Wikipedia agree on the score.

📅The most recent result we hold for him is the first round of the 2026 China Masters on 2 September. The only later match we hold is the one from the Asian Games below.

🏸At the 2026 Asian Games (20 to 29 September), at the Ichinomiya Municipal Gymnasium in Aichi, Japan, he lost the second round of the individual men's singles on 26 September to Loh Kean Yew (SGP) 12-21, 21-15, 14-21. India took bronze in the men's team event (beaten 1-3 by China in the semi-final), but we have not recorded whether Lakshya Sen played in the team event, nor any individual match before that second round. Our Asian Games 2026 page records the men's doubles gold at the 2022 edition (Hangzhou) as India's Rankireddy and Shetty — India's first Asian Games badminton gold. ⚠️This match is not in the four-match count above (score from Sen's side).

After that, the Arctic Open (6 to 11 October, Vantaa, Finland) has finished and the Denmark Open (13 to 18 October, Odense) is under way. Next comes the French Open from 20 to 25 October.

⚠️ Our Arctic Open and Denmark Open pages are written around the Japanese entries, and we have no match of Lakshya Sen on either (as of 15 October 2026); check the BWF draws for whether he played and how he did. The French Open 2026 draw came out on 15 October: he meets the 6th seed 🇯🇵Kodai Naraoka in the first round (withdrawals after the draw are still possible). No entry list has been published for the events after it, and we do not guess at who will play. Our full 2026 calendar is on the badminton schedule page.

"One win, three defeats" is not his 2026. The four we hold a score for fall inside the seven weeks from 15 July to 2 September, and neither the All England final in March nor anything from January to June is among them (his Asian Games 2026 match on 26 September is listed separately under What's next and is not counted either). Saying what is missing is more accurate than filling it in.

🔴The largest thing we found is that what is missing is not a run of results but a whole event. Count the same four events in the official BWF day data and there are six matches; the two we lack are both from the 2026 World Championships, and one is a win and one is a defeat. Our tournament page holds one line from 18 August saying he came through, and never says that it ended the following day (see The event that vanished).

🔍A ranking is a dated record too. The twelfth place on this page is the list dated 8 September 2026 and it moves the following week. We do not assert a current place; the BWF website has the latest list.

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