PV Sindhu entered quarterfinals of Indonesia Masters.© AFP
Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu registered an excellent come-from-behind victory in opposition to Spain’s Clara Azurmendi to advance to the quarterfinals of the Indonesia Masters Tremendous 750 badminton event on Thursday. Enjoying in opposition to the world no 47 Azurmendi for the primary time, Sindhu, who’s seeded third, took 47 minutes to report a 17-21 21-7 21-12 within the girls’s singles second spherical conflict. The 2-time Olympic medallist will now face with world no 30 unseeded Turkish shuttler Neslihan Yigit within the quarterfinals.
Sindhu has a 3-0 head-to-head report in opposition to the Turkish. Nevertheless, it was curtains for younger Lakshya Sen within the males’s singles occasion and the blended doubles pairing of Dhruv Kapila and N Sikki Reddy.
The 20-year-old Lakshya, who had reached the semi-finals at Hylo Open Tremendous 500 and ultimate of Dutch Open just lately, went down 13-21 19-21 to the highest seed and two-time world champion Kento Momota of Japan in a 46-minute conflict.
Kapila and Sikki, alternatively, misplaced a tough fought 15-21 23-21 18-21 battle to Thai duo of Supak Jomkoh and Supissara Paewsampran within the second spherical blended doubles match.
Matters talked about on this article
]