India’s advertising marketing campaign bought right here to a premature end as double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu crashed out inside the pre-quarterfinals of the Kumamoto Masters Japan Super 500 badminton match on Thursday. World no. 20 Sindhu was the lone Indian in competitors after the exits of Lakshya Sen and women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand. Sindhu squandered a sport lead to lose 21-17 16-21 17-21 in opposition to Canada’s Michelle Li, ranked twenty third on this planet, in a women’s singles match that lasted one hour and quarter-hour. It was neck and neck between the two shuttlers inside the first sport sooner than Sindhu took a marginal 11-8 lead and from there on saved her nostril merely ahead to take early profit.
Trailing, Li bought right here out attacking inside the second sport and raced to a 8-3 lead sooner than Sindhu clawed once more as a result of the scoreline study 16-16 at one time.
But Li then upped her sport and pocketed 5 straight components to draw parity inside the contest.
The decider witnessed an in depth battle between the two shuttlers till 17 components when Li compelled the tempo, pocketing 4 straight components to wrap up the match. The Canadian was moreover helped by Sindhu’s unforced errors.
Li will play Siouth Korea’s Yu Jin Sim inside the quarterfinals.
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