Oct 18, 2024 08:36 PM IST
The loss continues a season of discontent for PV Sindhu, who returned empty-handed from the Paris Video games.
Indian star PV Sindhu bowed out with a quarterfinal loss to Paris Olympics bronze-winner Gregoria Tunjung because the nation’s marketing campaign got here to an finish within the Denmark Open badminton event on Friday. The 29-year-old Sindhu went down 13-21, 21-16, 9-21 in a virtually hour-long conflict.
The world quantity 8 from Indonesia, who had gained simply two matches from their 12 previous encounters, was at her dominant finest regardless of Sindhu managing to assert the second sport. Prime-seed An Se Younger of South Korea would be the fifth-seeded Tunjung’s semifinal opponent.
Tunjung displayed command on the proceedings and reeled of eight factors in a row to take the primary sport quite simply.
However Sindhu, who had surprised the fourth-seeded world quantity seven han Yue of China within the pre-quarters, seemed a special participant within the second sport and raced to a 6-1 lead earlier than her opponent levelled it six-all and rallied to a 9-7 lead.
Sindhu as soon as once more fought her approach again to grab the lead at 11-10 after the break and made it 19-15 earlier than sealing the sport 21-16 to take the match to the decider.
Nonetheless, she couldn’t maintain the momentum as Tunjung roared again to assert the lopsided sport and with that, the match. The loss continues a season of discontent for the two-time Olympic medal-winning Indian, who returned empty-handed from the Paris Video games.
