Lakshya Sen clinched his career’s sixth and this year’s first BWF World Tour title by winning the Australian Open 2025 badminton tournament in Sydney on Sunday.
Lakshya Sen, India’s top-ranked men’s singles badminton player at 14th, needed 38 minutes for a clinical 21-15, 21-11 victory over world No. 26 Yushi Tanaka of Japan in the final of the BWF Super 500 tournament. This was the first head-to-head meeting between the two shuttlers.
Sen’s triumph in Sydney is his first BWF World Tour title since the Syed Modi International in December last year.
His career haul also features two Super 100 titles in 2019 – the Dutch Open and SaarLorLux Open – along with the India Open Super 500 in 2022 and the Canada Open Super 500 in 2023.
Sen also became only the second Indian badminton player to win a title on the BWF World Tour this year. Ayush Shetty won the US Open Super 300 title in June.
In the final, Sen reeled off four straight points to take control of the opening game at 7-3. Tanaka briefly closed in at 17-15 but the Indian badminton player, seeded seventh, responded with another four-point surge to wrap up the game.
The second game followed a similar pattern. After a measured start, Sen pressed ahead to build a six-point lead at the interval and stayed firmly in command thereafter to seal a convincing win.
Lakshya Sen carried momentum into the final after saving three match points in a gritty semi-final victory over Chou Tien Chen on Saturday. In the quarter-finals, Lakshya Sen beat compatriot Ayush Shetty.
Earlier this year, Lakshya finished as a runner-up at the Hong Kong Open and also featured in two semi-finals, including the Kumamoto Masters last week.
