India’s Lakshya Sen fought hard before going down in straight games to top seed Kento Momota of Japan in the opening round of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 event here on Tuesday.

Lakshya, 21, from Almora, who had lost in straight games to Momota in the Round of 16 last week, lost 21-23, 15-21 to the two-time world champion from Japan in 53 minutes.