Tokyo, July 17 -- Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen and the men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty crashed out of the ongoing Japan Open 2025 badminton tournament after losing their pre-quarterfinal encounters on Thursday.

Anupama Upadhyaya's run in the women's singles also ended in the round of 16, as per Olympics.com.

Paris 2024 Olympic semi-finalist Lakshya Sen, 18th in the badminton rankings, lost 21-19, 21-11 to local favourite and world No. 8 Kodai Naraoka.

The Indian badminton player pushed Naraoka in the opening game but failed to put up much resistance in the second as the contest lasted just under an hour. This was Lakshya's fifth loss to Naraoka in seven meetings.

Meanwhile, Satwik and Chirag fell to the Peop...