Chinese Taipei's "left-handed heavy artillery" Lin Junyi defeated the Indian veteran Prannoy, who had won the bronze medal at the World Championships, 21:18, 21:9 at the Super 300 Series 2025 Orleans Badminton Masters in France late at night on the 6th Beijing time, and advanced to the top 8 of the men's singles.

Chinese Taipei's "left-handed heavy artillery" Lin Junyi

World No. 14 Lin Junyi's best result of the season is the quarter-finals of the India Open, but he won the India Open and Indonesia Masters with Indonesia's Jonatan and Chinese Taipei at the Asian Mixed Team Championships in February, beating Singapore's Loh Kean Yew.

Lin Junyi was seeded second in the men's singles in Orleans, France, and defeated Malaysia's Zhan Junwei in straight games in the first round, and his opponent in the round of 16 was Prannoy, a bronze medalist at the 2023 World Championships.

Prannoy was a bit of a poor performer last year, reaching the quarter-finals of the India Open and currently ranked 30th in the world, while Lin Junyi defeated the Indian in straight games at last year's Asian Championships.

Lin Junyi held the lead in the early part of the first game, and led 13:7 at most, but the experienced Prannoy worked hard to chase the points, and even Lin Junyi, who had overtaken and fell behind 17:18, finally scored 4 points in a row, and there was no danger to take the next city. Lin Junyi showed his offensive power in the second game, scoring 5 points in a row to give the opponent a disadvantage at the beginning, and also continued to expand the lead, making the opponent more and more frustrated, and finally relied on a heavy deduction to make the opponent have no time to react, and it took 37 minutes to pass the game.