India바카라™s double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu continued her impressive run at the French Open badminton tournament by sailing into the women바카라™s singles semifinals with a straight-game win over Thailand바카라™s Busanan Ongbamrungphan in Paris on Friday. (More Badminton News)
Sindhu, seeded third, scripted a convincing 21-14, 21-14 win over eighth-seeded in 38 minutes to extend her dominating head-to-head record against the Thai to 14-1. The 26-year-old from Hyderabad had beaten Busanan at Denmark Open also, last week.
Sindhu, the reigning world champion, defeated Denmark's Line Christophersen, ranked 24th in the world 21-19, 21-9 on late Thursday night to enter the quarters. The world no.7 Indian will now cross swords with Japan바카라™s world no. 15 Sayaka Takahashi in the last four on Saturday.
However, young Lakshya Sen바카라™s fine run ended in the men's singles quarterfinal after he lost 17-21, 15-21 to Korea바카라™s Heo Kwanghee in 43 minutes. The 20-year-old from Almora had notched up a comfortable straight game win over Singapore's Loh Kean Yew to grab a place in the last eight.
Men바카라™s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also couldn바카라™t cross the quarterfinal hurdle, losing 21-18, 18-21, 17-21 to the fourth-seeded Malaysian combine of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik.
On Thursday, Satwik and Chirag beat MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila 15-21, 21-10, 21-19 in an all-Indian clash to reach the quarterfinals.
It was a clinical display by Sindhu in the quarterfinals as she zoomed to a 5-1 lead initially before moving to 11-6 at the break. She continued in the same vein after the interval, jumping to 18-7 to eventually pocket the opening game comfortably.
The second game turned out to be a close battle with Sindhu and Busanan engaging in a fierce battle. However, Sindhu broke off at 8-8 to grab a two-point advantage at the interval. Sindhu once again stepped up after the break to climb to 16-10 and 20-12. Busanan saved two match points before Sindhu sealed the contest.
Men바카라™s singles player Sourabh Verma, however, bowed out of the competition after losing 12-21, 9-21 to Japan바카라™s Kenta Nishimoto in the second round.
