Changzhou, July 22 -- India's Lakshya Sen struggled against home favourite Li Shi Feng and was defeated in the Round of 32 of the China Open, while HS Prannoy barely managed to conjure a way and crawled to the next fixture on Tuesday.

Lakshya, ranked 19th in the world, went down fighting 21-14, 22-24, 11-21 against world number five Feng of China in a contest that lasted 1 hour and 7 minutes. Following Feng's win, he now trails 6-7 in head-to-head contests.

The 23-year-old Indian suffered yet another premature exit in the tournament. Last week he lost 21-19, 21-11 to local favourite and world No. 8 Kodai Naraoka in the Japan Open. The Indian shuttler pushed Naraoka to his limits in the opening game but failed to put up much resistance i...