That will be all for Indian shuttlers at the Indonesia Masters. Three tournaments in to 2023, we are yet to see a finalist, but hopefully it is just a case of the shuttlers easing into the new year.

Men’s singles QF: Christie 15-21 21-10 21-13 Sen

Women’s doubles QF: Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 18-21 Fukushima/Hirota

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 18-21 Fukushima/Hirota: Crasto sends one long and that will be all for the match. A fighting performance from the young-old combination from India. Promise there to build on.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 18-20 Fukushima/Hirota: Brilliant winner from Fukushima. Match points, one saved.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 17-19 Fukushima/Hirota: At this stage, the JPN pair are just bossing the long rallies like they tend to do. The biggest challenge in women’s doubles is undoubtedly endurance. Tanisha bent double there, feeling the pace.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 17-17 Fukushima/Hirota: And the Indians are back level.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 15-17 Fukushima/Hirota: After a marathon point to make it 13-14, the JPN pair have pulled ahead again. This is what they do so well.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 14-11 Fukushima/Hirota: Handy lead this post interval. Can the Indians take this to the decider?

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 11-9 Fukushima/Hirota: A high-five between the Indians as they take a slender lead into the break

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 10-9 Fukushima/Hirota: Fabulous rally there, but it goes the JPN pair’s way.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 7-5 Fukushima/Hirota: Nice little phase for the Indians. Ashwini doing the pumping-up duties as the senior partner.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21, 5-5 Fukushima/Hirota: Crasto’s aggression is a little bit of a double-edged sword, but she sure is a bundle of energy. Couple of really good points at the net.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 13-21 Fukushima/Hirota: Some good moments from the Indians, solid rallies there too but the Japanese pair take the lead after pushing ahead in the second half.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 12-18 Fukushima/Hirota: Fantastic rally, this time the Indians defending superbly to force the error at the end. Good work from Crasto especially.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 11-17 Fukushima/Hirota: Finally the run of points is over at 7.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 9-15 Fukushima/Hirota: Just starting to pull ahead now the Japanese. Not too many long rallies at the moment, but there is one here and a fine drop shot from Hirota.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 9-11 Fukushima/Hirota: Japanese in the lead at interval but the Indians very much in this contest.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 9-10 Fukushima/Hirota: The Indians are staying in touch here. Nice kill by Ashwini at the net, followed by a good body attack from Tanisha.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 5-8 Fukushima/Hirota: A nice winner from Crasto and Ponnappa with a fist pump. The Indians are settling in well here.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 3-8 Fukushima/Hirota: Great rally for the 11th point, and the Indians fall just short after a fine point where they looked for good openings. The drop shot just too good for them in the end.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto 1-5 Fukushima/Hirota: Good start by the Japanese.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto vs Fukushima/Hirota: Having only started playing together recently, Tanisha Crasto / Ashwini Ponnappa take on Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota, the former world championships silver medallists. A good chance to see where they stand.

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Cricket update: India U19 women’s team are into the final of the inaugural World Cup.

As we wait for the doubles match, some essential reading on one of India’s greatest: Sania Mirza.

Women’s doubles QF, Ponnappa/Crasto vs Fukushima/Hirota: One match to go for this.

Women’s doubles QF, Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto vs Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota: It is the sixth match on Court 2, and the second is about to end at the moment. Join us in a while for that.

Coming soon: Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto, the pair of the veteran and youngster, won their second round match from two match points down and will take on Japan’s World No 11 pairing of Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 21-13 Sen: Lakshya Sen looked like he ran out of steam in the end, it was a lovely comeback from Jonatan Christie too. There are defeats that worry you and then there are defeats that you can take positives out of, be proud of the fight. If Gemke at India Open last week was the former, this one will be the latter for Lakshya. No shame in going out this way against the new world No 3 in front of his roaring home fans.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 20-13 Sen: Loud cheers again. Match points galore.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 19-13 Sen: Lakshya with another wild, wide smash.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 18-13 Sen: Lakshya’s lift lands in but it is other all Christie at the moment.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 15-12 Sen: Loud roars at Istora Senayan and that is because it might well be one of the rallies of the day. Sensational from both players, Lakshya defending Akane-esque. And it is a 35-shot rally that goes Christie’s way

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 14-12 Sen: Lakshya is fighting back once again after Christie pulled ahead by 4.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 11-10 Sen: Lakshya has closed the gap down.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 11-7 Sen: Lakshya needed that point. Steps up to the net to indicate he perhaps will look to attack the shuttle more, close the point with a nice crosscourt smash.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 11-6 Sen: And it is a handy lead for Christie at the final change of ends. It’s been a rather tough match to decipher in terms of momentum but fair to say the Indonesian in charge at the moment.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 10-6 Sen: And how quickly things change.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 9-6 Sen: Ah, that is a frustrating error from Lakshya at the end of what was another fine rally. Suddenly Christie is pulling ahead again.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 5-4 Sen: SUPERB RALLY AGAIN! Great defence from Sen off some superb drops from Christie, the winner off comes a fine reflex block.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 5-2 Sen: Superb rally! And a little bit of net luck goes to Sen. He needed that.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 5-1 Sen: Signs not good for the Indian here. He went down 1-8 against Gemke last week, is down by 4 here already. To be fair to him, Christie playing superbly at the moment.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 2-1 Sen: Solid rallying at the start of the decider. Good judgement this time by Sen at the baseline. Both players have lost a review.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 2-0 Sen: Sen said after his Gemke defeat at Delhi that he shouldn’t be waiting too long to start playing in the decider, was quite harsh on himself. He simply can’t afford to fall behind by a distance in the decider here. A superb rally for the second point, 35 shots. But it goes Christie’s way, just about.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 21-10 Sen: Sen with a backhand that goes long (and wide). Kind of sums up his second game, he needs to regroup quickly. Christie definitely has the upper hand at the moment.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 20-9 Sen: Shuttle sailing long on the baseline from Sen, have to wonder if the far side is the one where the wind is with the shuttle. Bagful of game points for Christie, one saved by Sen.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 17-8 Sen: Sen with probably the best point he has played in this game so far. Diving forehand return and quickly gets back up to play a delicate drop on the backhand side.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 16-7 Sen: Seems like it is time to conserve for the decider (for Lakshya and for us)

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 14-6 Sen: Sen with a booming smash winner to get the serve back but doesn’t keep it long. Christie with a lovely down the line winner.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 11-3 Sen: Might be damage limitation here for Lakshya. He does get the serve back as JC sends the shuttle wide.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 11-2 Sen: A marauding start to the 2nd game by Christie. There was one point where he had to defend with all he had but otherwise, he has upped the attacking game.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 9-2 Sen: And this is more than just a good phase for Christie. Some soft errors by Sen, who is looking like he is a bit rushed at the moment. A flamboyant backhand attempted by the Indian but it is out.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 6-2 Sen: A great piece of defence from Christie now and he wins a point he had no business winning. We might have to revise good and bad sides for the day, I guess.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 3-2 Sen: Another fabulous rally from both players. The longest rally of the match so far at 33 shots goes Christie’s way. But as the commentator says, some wonderful mix of offence and defence in that rally there.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-21 Sen: After a super crucial point went his way at 15-15, Lakshya ran away with the opening game. Christie’s game fell apart there just at the wrong time. Six straight points to close the game out for Lakshya.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-20 Sen: And five game points for Lakshya.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-19 Sen: A backhand push from JC goes long. Good lead for the Indian.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-18 Sen: And now this is Christie’s turn to make couple of quick errors.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 15-16 Sen: Another breathtaking rally at 13-15, with Sen defending with everything he has but eventually his backhand block is into the net. Quickly, JC makes it all level. And then the Indian wins another fine rally at 15-15 to inch ahead.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 13-15 Sen: A fabulous attacking point from Sen to go up by 3. And soon after, the earlier indecision that we mentioned, comes back to haunt.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 12-14 Sen: And Lakshya back in the lead, small as it is.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 11-11 Sen: Another lovely rally right out of the break and soon enough JC makes it 11-11

Men’s singles QF, Christie 8-11 Sen: Quite a superb rally just before the mid-game interval. It ends in a little bit of a soft error from JC but both players moved each other around with some very controlled badminton, front and back. Sen’s patience pays off.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 7-9 Sen: Quick series of errors from Sen and the lead has been cut short but Lakshya responds with a good body smash.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 5-8 Sen: There’s been a couple of good leaves from Sen already (even though he looked to be in two minds)

Men’s singles QF, Christie 4-6 Sen: That is a sensational block from Sen. Great forehand block as JoJo went for the kill and it lands in.

Men’s singles QF, Christie 3-5 Sen: This has been a lovely start to the match. Starting from some flamboyant defence from Lakshya to begin with. Some fine rallies already.

Men’s singles QF, Lakshya Sen vs Jonatan Christie: What a cracking match this could be. Lakshya Sen vs Jonatan Christie, the only two seeds in the men’s singles draw left. Huge roar, expectedly, for Jonatan Christie at Istora Senayan. We are underway. Looks like Lakshya chose sides.

Hello all and welcome to our live coverage of the 2023 badminton season. It’s quarterfinals day at the Indonesia Masters Super 500 in Jakarta.

Two Indian matches to look forward to today in what is the the third straight week of BWF World Tour action. The iconic Istora Senayan will be roaring for most of the day, and more so for the first match, as Jonatan Christie takes on India’s Lakshya Sen.

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