Lakshya Sen wins Australian Open Super 500, first title of 2025

Lakshya Sen ended a long drought of titles, winning the Super 500 Australian Open at Sydney, beating Japanese Yushi Tanaka 21-15, 21-11 in one of the easiest finals he has pocketed.

He gestured keeping out the noise with index fingers in his earlobes and eyes closed, upon winning, after a week of hard work.

This is Sen’s third Super 500 title, and he converted his second final of the year, after losing Hong Kong.

It was an eventful week where Sen defeated compatriot Ayush Shetty and Chou Tien Chen in hard fought matches.

The final in comparison was a breeze. He had spent 85 minutes on the court in winning semis, but Tanaka proved a more amiable opponent. Error-prone, facing massive accuracy issues, Tanaka kept spraying his smashes and botching what he reckoned were delicate strokes. His precision was poor, and the luckless Japanese who has been dubbed a domestic giant, had a strong of first and second round losses before he fetched up in the final.