Indian badminton ace PV Sindhu entered the summit conflict of the BWF World Tour Finals with a hard-fought victory over Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi within the semi-finals on Saturday.
World champion and two-time Olympic medalist Sindhu defeated Yamaguchi 21-15, 15-21, 21-19 in an exciting contest that lasted one hour and 10 minutes. She will face Korea’s An Seong, who defeated Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong 25-23, 21-17 within the second semi-final on Sunday.
This will likely be Sindhu’s third ultimate look on the season-ending event. She gained the title in 2018 and have become the one Indian to attain the feat. The world quantity seven entered the match in opposition to the world quantity three Japanese with an total head-to-head win-loss document.
Sindhu is in good type after profitable the bronze medal on the Tokyo Olympics. She had reached the semi-finals in her final three occasions – the French Open, the Indonesia Masters and the Indonesia Open – earlier than coming to the BWF World Tour Finals.
She was runner-up on the Swiss Open in March. But it won’t be simple for Sindhu within the ultimate in opposition to Seong, who went into the season-ending event with back-to-back titles on the Indonesia Masters and Indonesia Open.
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World No. 6 Seyong had additionally defeated Sindhu within the quarter-finals of the Denmark Open in October. Against Yamaguchi, Sindhu went down 0-4 within the first sport, however was shortly tied at 4-4 after which 9-9. The pair had been neck and neck however Sindhu superior from 15-14 to succeed in 18-15. After this, he gained the primary sport with three straight factors.
The second sport was additionally a decent match as each gamers leveled 10-10 earlier than Yamaguchi pocketed it with none fuss. In the deciding sport, Sindhu and Yamaguchi had been tied 5-5 earlier than the Indian misplaced seven straight factors. The Japanese bounced again by narrowing the hole to 11-13, however Sindhu reached 17-12.
Yamaguchi was not the person to throw within the towel with no combat and took the scoreline to 19-19. But Sindhu saved her greatest for final as she gained two consecutive factors and went on to win the third sport.
Young Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen will face defending Olympic champion and world primary Viktor Axelsen of Denmark later within the males’s singles semi-final.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
