Malaysia Masters: PV Sindhu advances to semifinals, Kidambi Srikanth out

Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu superior to the semifinals of the Malaysia Masters Super 500 match with a hard-fought win over Yi Man Zhang of China inside the girls’s singles proper right here on Friday.

Double Olympic medallist Sindhu, seeded sixth inside the match, beat lower ranked Zhang 21-16, 13-21, 22-20 in a quarterfinal match that lasted one hour and 14 minutes.

World amount 13 Sindhu avenged her round-of-32 loss to Zhang, ranked 18th, inside the All England Open earlier this 12 months. She had moreover crushed her Chinese opponent within the an identical match closing 12 months.

Thrilling win for Sindhu and she or he strikes into the Semi Finals 🥳

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Sindhu faces seventh seed and world amount 9 Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia inside the semifinals on Saturday. Tunjung upset second seed Yi Zhi Wang of China inside the quarterfinals 21-18, 22-20.

Tunjung has been in fantastic variety these days and Sindhu had misplaced to her inside the Madrid Spain Masters final in straight video video games in April.
Sindhu will, nonetheless, go into the semifinals with a 7-1 head-to-head profit over Tunjung.

In the boys’s singles, nonetheless, Kidambi Srikanth misplaced to Indonesian qualifier Christian Adinata 21-16, 16-21, 11-21 in 57 minutes inside the quarterfinals to bow out of the match.

HS Prannoy will probably be up in opposition to Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto in a single different males’s singles quarterfinals later inside the day.