Defending champion PV Sindhu on Thursday stormed into the ladies’s singles quarterfinals of the BWF World Championships by defeating Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong in straight video games.
In the pre-quarterfinal match that lasted 48 minutes, the world No. 7 Indian defeated her Thai rival to win 21-14, 21-18, down three locations.
With this win, Sindhu, seeded sixth within the showpiece match, prolonged her one-on-one report towards Chochuwong to 5-3.
Sindhu additionally avenged her twin losses to Chochuwong this season – a gaggle match of the BWF World Tour Finals earlier this month and the All England Championships in March.
Double Olympic medalist Sindhu faces high seed and world primary Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei, who defeated Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland 21-10, 19-21, 21-11 within the quarterfinals.
Sindhu took an preliminary 5-1 lead however Chochuwong narrowed the hole to 5-4 after which 10-9. The Indian went forward from there and gained the primary recreation 15-10 after which 19-11.
The second recreation was a troublesome affair although Sindhu began on the entrance foot to guide 3-0. Sindhu led 11-6 on the change of ends and the second half noticed some lengthy rallies with the Thai participant successful a few of them.
Sindhu was main 16-10 however Chochuwong got here again to make the hole 18-15 after which 19-18.
Sindhu gained an important level after an extended rally and made it 20-18 earlier than successful the second recreation and the match.
Sindhu, who received a bye within the first spherical, defeated Slovakia’s Martina Repiska 21-7, 21-9 within the second spherical on Tuesday.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
