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  • Paris Olympics 2024: PV Sindhu Crashes Out With Loss Against He Bing Jiao | Other

    PV Sindhu’s hopes of winning a third Olympic medal lay in tatters as she made a shock exit from the Paris Games with a straight-game loss against China’s world number nine He Bingjiao in the women’s singles pre-quarterfinals on Thursday. The 29-year-old from Hyderabad failed to mount a consistent attack and was outpaced 21-19 21-14 by Bingjiao in a 56-minute round of 16 clash, which was a rematch of the Tokyo Olympic bronze medal play-off. Sindhu, who won the silver and bronze medal at the Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo editions, had topped the group to qualify for the knockout stage.

    Having entered the Round of 16 after defeating Kristin Kuuba of Estonia, India shuttler PV Sindhu was aiming to win her third consecutive Olympic medal after her success in Rio and London Olympics. (‘Men Don’t Belong In Women Sports:’ Trends On Social Media After Imane Khelif Beats Angela Carini In 46 Seconds At Paris Olympics 2024)

    Sindhu marched into the Round of 16 of the badminton women’s singles event after beating Kristin Kuuba in the final Group M match at the ongoing Paris Olympics on Wednesday. She dominated over Kuuba and won the match 21-5, 21-10 in 34 minutes at the La Chapelle Arena.

    “I want that (to win a third medal). I feel really happy when people tell me – We want that medal from you,” Sindhu said in the post-match press conference.

    “At the same time, it comes with a lot of responsibilities and pressure, but it’s important for me to stay calm and keep going, one match at a time. I can’t expect easy wins. I’ll have to fight hard to earn that medal,” the shuttler added.

    In the first game, Sindhu controlled the momentum and clinched a 21-5 win in just 14 minutes. The Indian shuttler continued her form and won the second game 21-10 in 19 minutes.

    PV Sindhu could face China’s He Bingjiao in her upcoming Round of 16 match. Earlier in the Tokyo Olympics, Sindhu beat He Bingjiao to secure the bronze medal. The Indian shuttler had earlier defeated Maldives’ Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq in the women’s singles event. She won 21-9, 21-6 win in a game that lasted for 29 minutes. (With ANI Inputs)

  • Asian Games, Day 13 Live Updates: Prannoy, Satwik-Chirag in badminton semis, males’s criket tackle Bangladesh

    India received as many as 3 Gold medals, two in compound archery and 1 in squash, on Thursday because the nation headed towards its goal of 100 medals in Hangzhou Asian Games.

    India’s squash stars and compound archers led the medal rush on Day 12 of the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou. While the compound archery women and men’s groups received Gold medals, Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh received Gold in combined doubles squash on a day when fellow veteran Saurav Ghosal clinched silver in males’s singles. Antim Panghal made certain the wrestler didn’t draw a clean on an action-packed day in Hangzhou.

    Click right here to learn the whole highlights on Day 12

     

  • Asian Games 2023 Day 5 Live Updates: Medal occasions in capturing, India play Saudi Arabia in males’s soccer

    India received as many as 8 medals on the Asian Games on Wednesday, September 27 out of which 7 got here from the capturing ranges in Hangzhou. India completed the day on the seventh spot, having taken their medal tally to 22, together with 5 Gold medals.

    Here’s the Asian Games Day 4 Wrap in case you’ve gotten missed the motion.

     

  • Reboot of recreation and ambition wanted for PV Sindhu, who wobbles to tame defeat to Nozomi Okuhara

    Memories of previous glory are casting a protracted, debilitating shadow on PV Sindhu’s current recreation, which is in pressing want of rejigging upgrades and one actual reboot, however is as an alternative sloping down a spiral.

    It’s been 10 lengthy, tiring years of preventing on the World Championships, of taking out the fancied names in big kills, since her 2013 bronze. Add to that the 2 Olympic medals. But somebody would want to shake the 28-year-old awake and drill into her conscience that she is constructed to go upto 32-33 and is able to a number of World titles, not simply the one at Basel. Fading out gently, passively following Nozomi Okuhara’s lead within the tempo and cadence of rallies, providing little initiative of her personal, simply reacting, just isn’t how the World Championships saga ought to finish within the storied Sindhu vs Okuhara rivalry. The inspiration to reboot and rediscover was standing proper throughout the web, moderately scrambling like loopy from one nook to a different, getting each shuttle again to string collectively factors.

    Noone is aware of if the 2019 gold simply utterly satiated Sindhu’s urge for food for an almighty battle. But there was no sting or precision in her assault, neither the doggedness in taking part in that one additional correct shot in her protection, that would’ve pulled her out of the 21-14, 21-14 rut of Tuesday towards Okuhara. Sindhu seemed the farthest she’s going to ever be from the 21-7, 21-7 scoreline and mentality of the Basel closing the place she received gold, as an alternative exiting tamely from her first match at Copenhagen.

    As positively reinforcing because it may be for her morale, reminiscing concerning the seventh anniversary of her Olympic silver from 2016 on the eve of a troublesome World Championship marketing campaign in 2023 pointed to a thoughts and physique caught someplace up to now. Both Okuhara and the Indian had been coming into the Round of 32 of the Copenhagen World’s on the again of torrid lapse of kind within the final one 12 months. But solely the Japanese seemed able to neglect all about her 2017 World title, flip the web page, and actually put her head down and lunge and retrieve tirelessly to reprise that winninger pugnacious recreation, to begin another time in pursuit of a recent aim.

    The Japanese from Nagano was World No 1 in 2019 and had since spent complete seasons tethered and restricted by damage. But on Tuesday on her return this season, Okuhara got here ready to place within the mileage on court docket. It stays astounding how the 5’2 participant, very like Yamaguchi, manages staggering court docket protection and performs the excessive shuttle recreation of leaping and arching again to strike the birds means behind her head, level after punishing level. Still at 28. Not that Sindhu was hitting with a lot energy, however in that Plan A / no different plan monotone that she did dish out, Sindhu was making Okuhara chase the shuttle to diagonal corners and on both flanks on the internet. That the Japanese was ready to place on this exhausting work pissed off Sindhu no finish, and she or he invariably conceded errors.

    Okuhara started like at all times – speaking to herself earlier than coming into the court docket, a slight bow of respect, after which the total stretch lunge working up the preps for what was to observe. Sindhu began the match with a cross drop winner, however subsequently her angled photographs lacked precision as they received dumped into the web. Okuhara has choose outright kill photographs, only a few of them, however she might make do, as a result of neither was Sindhu attacking with any energy or precision from throughout the web. High serves, one other Okuhara staple, alongwith excessive tosses completely neutralised Sindhu, and their persistence alongside the Japanese shuttler’s means to bend low in stretch protection noticed her dominate the lengthy rallies as early as 4-3 within the opener.

    The one time Sindhu famously used her peak to strike the shuttle actual tall and long-established her soar smashes into sharp kills was within the Rio Games semifinal. But Okuhara has since then moved to hitting these excessive tosses and unsmashable dizzying lifts, giving it again to Sindhu and tiring out her lengthy limbs on the aerials. Since the Indian couldn’t discover gaps on Tuesday inside court docket confines with Okuhara defending heroically, she was compelled to go for the traces, the place her radar was woefully out of order. Sindhu’s personal low pickups would land within the internet and her pushes strayed lengthy and extensive as she struggled to search out any size from midcourt. All Okuhara needed to do was lengthen the rally, get her personal cross drops on the traces, and a Sindhu error would inevitably fetch up from a defeated wild swing of the racquet as she took the opener 21-14.

    Sindhu‘s only enterprise was a serve variation at the start of the second which seemed to shake Okuhara a tad as she fell back 0-9. But the Japanese soon came to grips with the Indian’s trick and as soon as she had a learn on that, she would restore momentum in her favour going into the break simply two behind at 9/11. Slow courts demanded that Sindhu powered via, as she as soon as used to and maintained the rigour in protection, each of which she was discovered wanting in. Her go-to when the match began slipping from her was injecting half hearted tempo into the photographs, however she would surrender on that too, as Okuhara remained resolute.

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    Whatever confidence the 9-0 lead may’ve generated evaporated in a jiffy, and earlier than a decider even drifted on the horizon, it changed into a mirage, as Sindhu fell again into erring in lengthy rallies. A big motive why the 2017 closing is labelled a traditional is that Sindhu matched Okuhara in retrieving some inconceivable shuttles. On the gradual courts of Copenhagen, she simply didn’t look eager to battle it out within the rally like at Glasgow, and stabbed on the shuttle on the lookout for impatient kills, blinking first all too typically. A flat low crosscourt winner at 11-9 was the final of her ripostes, however Okuhara took 6 factors from 9-12 down to achieve 15-12, and like has been the case previous two seasons when Sindhu loses the lead as of late, she will get deflated quickly sufficient.

    Sindhu added some revs on the shoulder at 13-15 and was instantly rewarded with some extent, indicating how predictable tempo had seen her come undone. But subsequent level, Okuhara was made to work exhausting, chase the shuttle across the court docket and when she outran Sindhu, the Indian’s again was damaged. At 14-16 Sindhu would lastly smash the excessive serve, however every time the Japanese prevailed in a rally, Sindhu would droop her shoulders and present errors. Both units ended with tame makes an attempt to maintain the smashes in, as Sindhu sprayed them extensive on an open half of the court docket with Okuhara out of place.

    Even a 9-0 cushion wasn’t sufficient to press the benefit and pressure a decider. There was no semblance of both the 2017 nor the 2019 finals towards Okuhara in Sindhu of 2023. Opposite her although, Okuhara appeared to have neatly folded the reminiscences of them each away, and got here outfitted to battle a recent battle. She would grin and inform the digital camera: “Thank-you, supporting me!” It left you with a nagging feeling that just one half of an excellent comeback was full.

  • Badminton World Championships: On gradual courts, embattled Sindhu hopes luck drifts her approach

    The alchemy of a PV Sindhu-Nozomi Okuhara faceoff and lengthy rallies is etched on minds since that wonderful August of 2017 when the 2 performed the Glasgow World Championships ultimate. At Basel two years later, Sindhu gained a brief, snappy summit conflict. The final time they met, although – within the All England quarters in 2020 – it was once more a three-setter backwards and forwards with lengthy, punishing rallies in gradual circumstances.

    Four years on, and far sooner than they’d like in a event week, the 2 will meet in Round of 32 at Copenhagen. On a decrease perch than the pedestal, and with significantly slower limbs now, the 2 will go one other spherical on the Royal Arena within the Danish capital which winkingly has conspired to offer them the gradual shuttle circumstances that may see them reprise the lengthy rally sport as soon as extra.

    From all accounts, the world is enjoying gradual, with a slight sideways drift. That ought to work within the favour of most Indians, and undoubtedly fits Sindhu as these circumstances are kinder to her defensively and for shuttle management. “Of course, she needs to play at a better pace than she has been, but if she plays steady and attacks, varying the pace, she holds an advantage against Okuhara whose game she is used to,” says senior coach Vimal Kumar from Bangalore.

    While Ratchanok Intanon would possibly show difficult within the Last 16, Sindhu together with her power can hit by means of a significantly slowed-down Okuhara. The Japanese former champion was relieved and completely happy throughout her emotional comeback to the World Championships stage amidst recurrent harm troubles, profitable her opener in straight units on Monday.

    Seven years in the past, I launched into a journey that may eternally change my life. Looking again, it’s onerous to consider that it’s been seven lengthy years since that momentous day once I proudly gained my first Olympic medal in Rio. It was a Silver, a shining image of my dedication, onerous work,… pic.twitter.com/svW5DOjCP6

    — Pvsindhu (@Pvsindhu1) August 19, 2023

    With the gradual circumstances, Sindhu can use her punch clears to pack off Okuhara to the backcourt, unafraid of the pushes and clears touchdown out on a regular basis like would occur on quick courts. Then due to her peak, she has the lunge to get to the web early and kill off the purpose after pinning the Japanese again.

    Courts in Europe are usually compact and with out air-conditioning, apart from the All England enviornment which is quite a bit larger. The Far Eastern courts have wild drifty circumstances and might play actually quick. Indians, who’re good, affected person stroke makers choose the gradual set of venues.

    Prannoy, Sen win

    HS Prannoy, who beat Kalle Koljonen 24-22, 21-10 within the opener on Monday purchased himself time by way of the gradual circumstances to get an excellent learn on his attacking Finnish opponent, who performs in Denmark usually. It confirmed within the hectic scoreline of the opener the place Prannoy saved 5 set factors, earlier than getting a deal with on his opponent in a straightforward second.

    “Prannoy is intelligent with drift,” Vimal Kumar stated, nevertheless it was the gradual circumstances that gave him some respiratory house towards the southpaw. “He doesn’t rush into things, saves energy and has excellent court movement. He knows when to push the pace, when to give way. So even if the Finnish player was attacking, Prannoy controlled the shuttle well.”

    It’s doable in circumstances the place the shuttle isn’t whizzing previous. Not too comfy towards people who retrieve and counter-attack whereas he’s outpaced, Prannoy can manipulate opponents by retrieving himself in lengthy rallies if the shuttle is gradual.

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    A straight-games win over Kalle Koljonen of 🇫🇮 helps HS Prannoy of 🇮🇳 into the second spherical of males’s singles on the 2023 BWF World Championships.

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    — Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) August 21, 2023

    The 31-year-old lacked precision on cross courts at the beginning, with Koljonen taking advantage of the left-handed angles. But Prannoy charged on the internet within the ending phases of the opener and closed out comfortably within the second. At the 14-6 rally, Koljonen despatched the shuttle to Prannoy’s low backhand 9 instances, however the Indian was beautiful in defending at that regular, innocent tempo of the shuttle.

    Once he received a measure of circumstances and began hitting the traces, he made Koljonen twist and activate both flank and at last toyed with him, enjoying him to the front and back corners. He faces one other decided opponent in Chico Wardoyo, the highest Indonesian hope left within the draw on Tuesday and the Indian might want to get his misleading flicks going.

    Another Indian who squirms in quick draught circumstances is Lakshya Sen, who had a straightforward 21-12, 21-7 opener towards Georges Paul of Mauritius. He runs into a tough Korean Jeon Hyeok Jin in Round 2 on Tuesday. While the Korean, a runner who defends nicely, fancies the slower circumstances too, Sen has the higher hand. “Lakshya struggles when there’s too much drift, he’s better in slow halls where he has the ability to pull out matches,” Vimal says.

    The one Indian who has eternally struggled on gradual courts is the delectable attacking stroke-maker Kidambi Srikanth. The gradual circumstances had introduced him to a grinding halt at Glasgow Worlds in 2017 towards Korean Son Won Ho in an in any other case profitable season of 4 titles.

    At Copenhagen, as soon as once more, he went right down to Kenta Nishimoto, shedding 21-14, 21-14 because the Japanese performed a affected person, managed sport and retrieved nearly every part thrown at him.

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    🏸 Srikanth (WR 20) misplaced to WR 15 Kenta Nishimoto 14-21, 14-21.

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    — India_AllSports activities (@India_AllSports activities) August 21, 2023

    Srikanth remained spectacular on the internet, however his large assault from the again saved coming again as Nishimoto might retrieve the shuttle in unhurried circumstances, and the previous Indian World’s silver medallist would run out of endurance in lengthy rallies and make inevitable errors. Physically, Srikanth isn’t as sturdy as Prannoy or Sen at present, and gradual circumstances demand affected person, defensive rigour, which the attacking shuttler didn’t have the wherewithal to maintain.

    The circumstances are anticipated to remain the identical, given native favorite Viktor Axelsen likes gradual shuttles. He can punish anybody who performs quick together with his downward strokes, and together with his peak and energy has a greater ending kill than anyone else. Japanese Kodai Naraoka and Thai Kunlavut Vitidsarn just like the gradual shuttles too, since they will pin opponents to the backcourt, and drag them right into a run-and-retrieve rut.

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    Perhaps probably the most gleeful with the circumstances, although hardly reliant on them, are the Indian pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty. Slower courts put a lesser defensive pressure on them and neutralise speedy Malaysian and Indonesian pairings which might make them scurry with the flat, quick sport.

    However, the Indians are using a confidence wave and have as such gained titles in France in addition to Indonesia and Korea within the final 12 months, and are resistant to circumstances. Both have the ability to hit onerous in addition to the deception backup of gradual drops to barter circumstances, and gradual shuttles moreover assist in protection.

    Stamina is the Indian shuttlers’ forte, and the useful circumstances ought to support them as they begin going deeper into the draw. Additionally, the gradual circumstances might see one more traditional on the World Championships with much more rallies between the 2 previous rivals – Nozomi Okuhara and PV Sindhu of their 18th faceoff.

  • Australia Open: Sindhu knocked out in quarterfinals

    By PTI

    SYDNEY: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu bowed out of the Australia Open after happening in straight video games to USA’s world quantity 12 Beiwen Zhang within the girls’s singles quarterfinals right here on Friday.

    Sindhu, who has slipped to world quantity seventeenth following a collection of early exits, was trying to make her fourth semifinal of the season however discovered it robust to tame Zhang, shedding 12-21 17-21 in 39 minutes within the USD 420,000 tremendous 500 match.

    In 10 previous conferences, Sindhu had received six instances in opposition to her opponent however she simply could not get happening Friday in opposition to the 33-year-old Chinese-born American Zhang, who confirmed higher management to return up trumps.

    Sindhu had overwhelmed compatriots Ashmita Chaliha and Aakarshi Kashyap within the first two rounds however her loss to Zhang would come as an enormous disappointment as she heads to the World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark to be held from August 21 to 27.

    The 2019 world champion, Sindhu has been going by means of a lean patch since her restoration from an harm, and has repeatedly made early exits in as many as seven of the 12 BWF World Tour occasions this 12 months.

    Early this 12 months, Sindhu had parted methods with Korea’s Park Tae-Sang after which briefly labored with SAI coach Vidhi Chaudhary. She is at present coaching beneath new coach Muhammad Hafiz Hashim, the 2003 All England champion.

    Among different Indians in fray, HS Prannoy will face high seed Anthony Ginting of Indonesia, whereas 2021 world championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth will tackle compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat later within the day. 

    SYDNEY: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu bowed out of the Australia Open after happening in straight video games to USA’s world quantity 12 Beiwen Zhang within the girls’s singles quarterfinals right here on Friday.

    Sindhu, who has slipped to world quantity seventeenth following a collection of early exits, was trying to make her fourth semifinal of the season however discovered it robust to tame Zhang, shedding 12-21 17-21 in 39 minutes within the USD 420,000 tremendous 500 match.

    In 10 previous conferences, Sindhu had received six instances in opposition to her opponent however she simply could not get happening Friday in opposition to the 33-year-old Chinese-born American Zhang, who confirmed higher management to return up trumps.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Sindhu had overwhelmed compatriots Ashmita Chaliha and Aakarshi Kashyap within the first two rounds however her loss to Zhang would come as an enormous disappointment as she heads to the World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark to be held from August 21 to 27.

    The 2019 world champion, Sindhu has been going by means of a lean patch since her restoration from an harm, and has repeatedly made early exits in as many as seven of the 12 BWF World Tour occasions this 12 months.

    Early this 12 months, Sindhu had parted methods with Korea’s Park Tae-Sang after which briefly labored with SAI coach Vidhi Chaudhary. She is at present coaching beneath new coach Muhammad Hafiz Hashim, the 2003 All England champion.

    Among different Indians in fray, HS Prannoy will face high seed Anthony Ginting of Indonesia, whereas 2021 world championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth will tackle compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat later within the day. 

  • PV Sindhu’s kind not a priority, she stays one in every of India’s greatest: Pullela Gopichand

    Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu’s lack of consistency after getting back from an harm shouldn’t be a explanation for “concern”, feels chief nationwide badminton coach Pullela Gopichand.

    Sindhu suffered yet one more first spherical exit on Tuesday when she misplaced to world no 1 Akane Yamaguchi within the Singapore Open.

    “She’s very young in saying that she’s just 26-27. It’s a good age, there is no reason for concern,” Gopichand advised PTI in a digital interplay.

    A silver medallist on the 2016 Rio Olympics and bronze winner within the Tokyo Games, Sindhu suffered an ankle harm in August final yr to be slipped out of top-10 within the BWF girls’s singles rankings. She remained out of motion for 4 months due to that harm.

    Sindhu’s remaining and semi-final end at Madrid Spain Masters and Malaysia Masters respectively have been her greatest outcomes this season. She reached a low with a primary spherical exit on the Thailand Open when she misplaced to Cananda’s Michell Li.

    But Gopichand, a former All England champion who guided Sindhu since she was 10 until she turned an Olympic medallist, firmly believed she would bounce again stronger.

    “She has come out on top in the six-eight months. She is starting to play well. I do expect her to play well in future. She is definitely one of India’s bets for the future,” Gopichand stated.

    Terming it a combined season for Sindhu, Gopichand stated: “It’s the start of the season and starting of Olympic qualification. The outcomes have been combined up to now.

    “We have a lot of pressure on players to perform. We have to just back them up and hope that they are playing the big tournaments.”

    The excessive level of the season for Indian badminton was HS Prannoy’s title win on the Malaysia Masters final month, the 30-year-old’s first males’s singles triumph since 2017 US Open.

    “From our perspective usually, Prannoy profitable in Malaysia was one which’s one thing I’m actually pleased about. it’s the start of the season, it’s early.

    “We have not done well at the Sudirman Cup, it was kind of a negative note. Lakshya Sen did well to get to the semifinals in Thailand, and I do believe that the next few weeks will be very critical and we have big tournaments coming up,” stated the 49-year-old Gopichand.

    The high shuttlers of the nation are at present coaching with private coaches. Sindhu is coaching with Vidhi Chuadhary, whereas the struggling Kidambi Srikkanth has roped in Wiempie Mahardi of Indonesia with an eye fixed on Paris Olympics subsequent yr.

    “In general, the rigours of having to play back-to-back, players have started to feel that they need personal coaches,” stated Gopichand.

    “If one has gained then all people begins to consider that they do want one. This is one thing that has been taking place.

    “In the Olympic year, it’s everybody’s need to have that personal attention. I think it’s a trend that has started, many also follow it in other sports. I’m okay with that.”

    Advisor of Indian Padel Federation

    Gopichand will now be seen selling padel sport as an advisor. The racket sport combines tennis and squash and is relatively new to India. It is nicknamed ‘Tennis with Walls’ and ‘Squash in the Sun’.

    “I first noticed the game in Dubai and located it very energetic, a number of enjoyable, and really interactive.

    “We at the Academy have a running track and in between the track we have some space and thought padel will be a right fit for it,” he stated.

    The badminton ace feels the game has the potential to turn into standard in India.

    “I do consider as a sport a number of the issues that are vital are the essential stage. I believe it’s simple to select up however robust to grasp.

    “It’s a sport in which everybody can try their hands and that’s what makes the sport with a very low entry barrier. Everybody has the possibility of playing the sport,” he added.

  • PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth eye good current in Thailand

    Following an trustworthy current in Malaysia, star Indian shuttlers, along with PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth, will seek for consistency as they begin their advertising and marketing marketing campaign inside the Thailand Open Super 500 badminton occasion beginning proper right here on Tuesday.

    While Sindhu had reached the semifinals closing week, Srikanth signed off with a quarterfinal finish in Kuala Lumpur and the duo will look to go deep inside the draw to keep up their hopes of profitable a title.

    Double Olympic medallist Sindhu had come close to breaking her title jinx when she reached the finals of Madrid Spain Masters nevertheless Srikanth has struggled since his epic run on choice to the Thomas Cup victory closing yr.

    The 27-year-old from Hyderabad, who slipped two places to world amount 13 this week, will face Canada’s Michelle Li inside the opening spherical, whereas Srikanth will look to take quite a few concepts from HS Prannoy when he takes on Malaysia Masters finalist Weng Hong Yang of China.

    While a win for Sindhu is inclined to place her face-to-face with China’s sixth seed Wang Zhi Yi, Srikanth ought to compete with third-seeded Chinese Shi Yu Qi if he can cross the opening hurdle.

    Lakshya Sen, who has slipped out of the best 20 following a dismal run this season, will open in opposition to Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei. Sen had misplaced to Angus Ng Ka Long of Hong Kong in straight video video games closing week.

    Orleans Masters winner Priyanshu Rajawat may even be inside the fray this week when he squares off in opposition to Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong inside the opening spherical.

    After skipping Malaysia Masters, India’s excessive doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty may be once more in movement this week, taking on France’s Lucas Corvee and Ronan Labar.

    Men’s pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala, ladies’s pair of Ashwini Bhat Okay and Shikha Gautam are moreover inside the fray.

  • 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 🥳

    📸: @badmintonphoto#MalaysiaMasters2023#IndiaontheRise#Badminton pic.twitter.com/aKzvFvxsDu

    — BAI Media (@BAI_Media) May 26, 2023

    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.

  • Dismal current ends India’s Sudirman Cup advertising marketing campaign

    It was a 5-0 rout by the fingers of Malaysia as India had been knocked out of the Sudirman Cup on Monday – the loss coming after a 1-4 downing by Taiwan inside the group stage on Sunday. All the huge names copped losses and there was little to salvage from the dismal effectivity as India’s hopes ended all through the 2 days, with the final word inconsequential Australia tie hopefully used to examine the model new names.

    On Monday, the outcomes had been abysmal. Dhruv Kapila had stepped in for Satwiksairaj Rankireddy in males’s doubles on the Mixed Asian Team event, nevertheless he was not very environment friendly inside the blended doubles on the Sudirman Cup though Ashwini Ponappa and him tried what they could all through the 21-16, 21-17 loss to the right-left mixture of Goh Soon Huat/Lai SJ. In what had been transient rallies to start out with, the Indian duo lacked the sharpness of an on a regular basis pairing as they fell behind in every items and didn’t recuperate from the leads.

    When the defending obtained larger like at 16-19 inside the second all through an prolonged rally, the ultimate shot nonetheless sailed in depth, and the Malaysian combination was an extreme quantity of for the scratch Indian pair.

    Kidambi Srikanth took to the courtroom in opposition to Lee Zii Jia, who was in stylish contact on the day. As early as 8-10 inside the opener, after Lee obtained 6 of those remaining 8 elements, it turned clear that Srikanth might be in hassle when the Malaysian launched out his snappy shortest backswing smash scythe, and subsequent degree found the nook strains effectively. Lee pulled away at 12-17 and under no circumstances appeared once more.

    Srikanth primarily suffered because of all of his private strokes and assault merely couldn’t dent Lee’s sturdy long-span safety. Frustrated by each smashed shuttle coming correct once more at him, his errors when going for the strains compounded. Some, he over-hit into the web, others he sprayed in depth. With Srikanth, as quickly because the errors come, they gush out, and he struggled to stem the tide.

    At 9-20 inside the second, he found himself an open courtroom and nonetheless smashed in depth. He had tried all of the items – to hasten the tempo, Lee was up for it; forecourt deceptions, Lee picked all of them. His misery led to a 21-16, 21-11 loss.

    Perhaps primarily probably the most bizarre lack of her career, nevertheless PV Sindhu could battle to understand how she went from taking the opening set 21-14 in quarter-hour in opposition to Goh Jin Wei after which proceeded to play a howler of a second set riddled with so many errors, even the opponent appeared shocked.  But nothing can beat the fully wild rollercoaster that was the decider. Sindhu fell 3-13 behind, persevering with with the error strewn recreation of slashing at shuttles with seemingly no path to the hitting. All this whereas Goh was collaborating in a simple nevertheless exceptionally fixed recreation of sluggish drops to assemble elements previous Sindhu’s errors. The Malaysian was moreover tiring visibly while Sindhu went from 2-11 down to come back again inside a level of her at 14-15.

    Yet the errors saved tempo with the winners, and Goh would attain 16-19 with an almighty cross smash. Sindhu levelled at 20-20, nevertheless the day belonged to Goh Jin Wei who reversed a 0-3 career nose to nose rely with the 14-21, 21-10, 22-20 win.

    0-3 down inside the tie, and India had been out of the Sudirman Cup.

    Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty couldn’t reverse their 0-7 h-2-h in opposition to world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, with forecourt tempo as quickly as as soon as extra troubling them in fast exchanges. It’s a recreation mannequin they uncover awkward, and that continued inside the 21-18, 21-19 defeat to the Malaysians.

    Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela too flatlined on the day, unable to tug out the game which may stop spirited Malaysian pairing of Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan. It was a tepid current from the youthful Indians as they misplaced 21-15, 21-13.