19-year-old Lakshya withdrew on Wednesday after his father DK Sen returned a positive test for the dreaded virus. DK Sen is asymptomatic at this point.
The former world number 13 beat Belgium's Maxime Moreels in opening round 21-8 21-8 in just 19 minutes.
Rest of the Indian squad, including Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and Shubhankar Dey, flew with Air France from Delhi on Thursday night.
India's campaign in the Chinese Taipei Open ended with Ajay Jayaram going down in the quarter-finals on Friday.
It was the second consecutive runner-up finish for Jayaram on the circuit as he had also reached the final at the White Nights International Challenge, last month.
Jayaram, who had reached the finals at White Nights last month, will face Indonesia's World No. 79 Shesar Hiren Rhustavito in the final.
Jayaram, who had finished runners-up at White Nights, defeated Indonesia's Gatjra Piliang Fiqihila Cupu 21-7 21-16 to set up a clash with top-seeded Brazilian Ygor Coelho.
Ajay Jayaram will face Korea's Heo Kwang Hee in the quarterfinals of US Open.
Jayaram, who has reached the finals of the PBL consecutively in the past two years with two different teams, will surely look to make it a hat-trick of finals leading his new team to the last stage of the tournament and make their debut season a memo
Ajay Jayaram had reached the finals of 2015 Korea Super Series. He had won the Dutch Open twice and finished runners up twice in the tournament.
Prannoy was picked up by Ahmedabad Smash Masters for a whopping price of Rs 62 lakh, while, Awadhe Warriors had to shell out a huge sum of Rs 56.1 lakh to get the services of Srikanth.
Mixed day for Indian shuttlers as defending champion Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and B. Sai Praneeth advanced to the next round while Parupalli Kashyap, Ajay Jayaram and H.S. Prannoy bowed out from Australian Superseries tournament.
While Jayaram struggled with injuries and form, younger shuttlers such as K Srikanth, Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma made a mark in international badminton.
Ajay Jayaram, who continues to be the top-ranked Indian at No. 19, defeated world number 2 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark 9-21, 21-14, 21-19 to move into the men's singles quarter-finals of the Malaysia Open Superseries here on Thursday.
Almere (The Netherlands): Indian shuttler Ajay Jayaram notched up a superb straight-game win over Estonia's Raul Must in the finals to defend his men's singles title at the Dutch Open Grand Prix here today.Just three
Seoul: A fairytale ending eluded him as Indian shuttler Ajay Jayaram's rampaging run was brought to a halt by defending champion and World No. 1 Chen Long of China in the final of the USD
Basel (Switzerland): Kidambi Srikanth entered the final of the the USD 120,000 Swiss Grand Prix Gold badminton championship after he got the better of compatriot Ajay Jayaram in an all-India last-four clash here today.Top seed
Basel: Top seed K Srikanth survived a scare before prevailing over Denmark's Emil Holst in a three-game match to reach the quarterfinals of the USD 120,000 Swiss Grand Prix Gold badminton championship here.The World No.
Birmingham: India's Ajay Jayaram and Anand Pawar registered straight game wins to progress to the second round of the men's singles qualifying round of the prestigious All England Championship badminton tournament, here Tuesday.While Jayaram beat
New Delhi: The Indian challenge came to an end as shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and Ajay Jayaram lost their respective semi-final matches at the season opening $120,000 Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold here Saturday.Second seed Sindhu,
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