Sindhu advances to Singapore Open semifinal
Kallang (Singapore), July 15 :Former world champion PV Sindhu registered a thrilling win over China’s Han Yue to march through to the semifinal of Singapore Open Super 500 badminton tournament here on Friday.
Sindhu come from one game down to beat Han 17-21, 21-11, 21-19 in a thrilling quarterfinal match at the Singapore Indoor stadium. She will next play against Saena Kawakai of Japan to secure her spot in the final.
After losing the first game in a close contest. Sindhu turned the momentum in the second and pocketed the game to force the match into decider and keeping her semifinal hopes alive.
The deciding game witness an intense action in the initial exchanges but it was Han who took three-point lead at the time of breather.
After the change of sides, Sindhu took seven points in row from 9-14 down and held 2-point lead. But Han was not ready to gave up easily as she equalised at 16-all. Sindhu regained her lead with couple of points and the Chinese again levelled it at 18-all.
The monentum kept swinging back-and-forth as none of the player held lead. The drama continued as the scores were tied 19-all and match point awaited one of them.
Other moment, Sindhu reached to the match point opportunity. Then, she went for a short lift to which Han reverted with a smash that went slight above the wide line. Sindhu confidently challenged it to be out which she won and wrapped up the win to march through to the last-four