Tokyo: Ruling the Sindhu PV world champion advanced to the pre-quarter-finals of the Women’s Single Badminton at the Tokyo Olympics after defeating Hong Kong Ny Cheung in Group J on Wednesday.
26 year old India, who has claimed a silver medal in the last edition in Rio, won over the world No.
34 Cheung 21-9 21-16 in 35 minutes match to add groups.
This was Sindhu’s sixth victory over Cheung at many meetings as possible.
WORLD No.
7 Sindhu will meet the world of Danish number 12 Mia Blichfeldt, who topped Group I.
Sindhu has a 4-1 head-to-head record against Blichfeldt, the only victory against India is in Yonex Thailand open earlier this year.
The reach of Hyderabad, the sixth seed, has defeated the Ksenia Polycarpova from Israel in its opening match.
Sindhu uses the repertoights of strokes, and their ability to vary the pace that disturbs Hong Kong players, making him run in court.
Indians will then come with the perfect placement.
Cheung got a few points with a cheat Cross Court return but he did a lot of mistakes that were not released to have the opportunity to suppress Indians.
Sindhu led 6-2 from the start before 10-3.
He made a rare mistake before entering the interval at 11-5.
Indians did not have a problem after the resumption when he enlarged 20-9 and bagged the opening game when Cheung reprint again.
Cheung was looking for extraordinary turnaround in the second game when he extended the demonstration and with Sindhu was too struggling to control the shuttle, the duo moved 6-6 and 8-8.
Sindhu also made an assessment mistake before sending all the shuttle again to submit a single point of the point to his opponent.
Cheung tried to press Sindhu but Indians stretched with a better stroke that included a few straight down the line.
Sindhu moved to 19-14 before winning six match points but he missed the line again and captured the shot to waste two match points before refreshing him with smash.
Then on that day, B Sai Praneeth will take M caljouw Dutch in Group D second and final group matches.
On Tuesday, Indian Shuttlers Chirag Shetty and Satwikaraj Ranking suffered a broken heart after they failed to qualify for the quarter-finals at the Tokyo Olympics despite winning two matches in their group.
The Indian duo has emerged victory against the British couple Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in their last match, but still missed the qualifications for the quarter-finals after three pairs ended with points and the same game was deemed to identify qualifications.