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The 22-year-old Lakshya is aiming to become the first Indian male shuttler to finish on the Olympic podium.
The unseeded Lakshya Sen has third seed and world No. 3 Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in his group.
The President was seen playing a few shots with the celebrated badminton player at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The Indian had defeated Lanier at the Madrid Spain Masters qualification round last year in their only meeting.
World No. 10 Prannoy was the last Indian to be eliminated on a day when his compatriot Sameer Verma, mixed doubles pair of Sikki Reddy and B Sumeeth Reddy and Aakarshi Kashyap in women's singles also bowed out.
Aakarshi Kashyap beat Australia's Kai Qi Bernice Teoh to progress to the quarterfinals.
Antonsen now enjoys a 3-2 head-to-head record against Sen.
India had a mixed day in women's doubles as Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponappa won while Rutaparna Panda and her sister Swetaparna lost.
The Indian mixed doubles pair of B Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy prevail over the American duo of Vinson Chiu and Jennie Gai in the opening round.