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Basel (Switzerland)
India’s twice silver medallist Pusarla V Sindhu made an emphatic start to her BWF World Championships campaign on Wednesday with a smooth win over Pai Yu Po.
Sindhu, who had reached the finals of Indonesia Open last month, was in command as she controlled the rallies and outsmarted Chinese Taipei’s Pai Yu Po 21-14, 21-14 in a 43-minute contest.
In the first game, Sindhu moved ahead from 5-5 to slowly create a gap and entered the interval with a 11-7 lead.
After the break, Sindhu continued to surge and grabbed six game points when Pai made an error in judgement at the backline. The Indian sealed it with a cross court return.
Sindhu zoomed to a 6-1 lead in the second game before Pai started constructing the rallies and narrowed the deficit to 5-7.
Sindhu’s unforced errors also made life easy for the Taiwanese girl, who showed some great skills and managed to enter the interval with a 11-10 lead after Sindhu found the net.
The Indian, however, changed gears after the break, dishing out some good-looking strokes to eventually enter match point at 20-14 when her rival missed a shuttle at the backline.
She sealed the match next with a precise on-the-line return.
The fifth seeded Indian, who received a bye in the opening round, will face Beiwen Zhang of USA, who defeated Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen of Australia in straight games 21-14, 21-13.
The four-time medallist at the World Championships and World No.5 Indian has a 4-3 record against Zhang.
Sindhu, also an Olympic silver medallist, had lost to Zhang at the India Open finals last year.
Late on Tuesday, top seed Akane Yamaguchi tumbled out of the tumbled out of the tournament losing to Yeo Jia Min of Singapore 14-21, 18-21. However, former world No.1 Tai Tzu Ying faced no trouble as she eased past Fitriani Fitriani of Indonesia 21-15, 21-14.
Tai will next play Korean Kim Ga Eun, who beat 16th seed Cai Yan Yan of Chine 21-14, 16-21, 21-10 in the second round.
India’s Saina Nehwal will play Dutch Sorya De Vish Eijbergen on Wednesday, while India’s Kidambi Srikanth will meet Misha Zilberman of Israel in the men’s second round.
Among others, the Indian pairing of Jakkapudi Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram went down 8-21 18-21 to eighth seeds Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto of Japan in the women’s doubles competition.
Basel (Switzerland)
India’s twice silver medallist Pusarla V Sindhu made an emphatic start to her BWF World Championships campaign on Wednesday with a smooth win over Pai Yu Po.
Sindhu, who had reached the finals of Indonesia Open last month, was in command as she controlled the rallies and outsmarted Chinese Taipei’s Pai Yu Po 21-14, 21-14 in a 43-minute contest.
In the first game, Sindhu moved ahead from 5-5 to slowly create a gap and entered the interval with a 11-7 lead.
After the break, Sindhu continued to surge and grabbed six game points when Pai made an error in judgement at the backline. The Indian sealed it with a cross court return.
Sindhu zoomed to a 6-1 lead in the second game before Pai started constructing the rallies and narrowed the deficit to 5-7.
Sindhu’s unforced errors also made life easy for the Taiwanese girl, who showed some great skills and managed to enter the interval with a 11-10 lead after Sindhu found the net.
The Indian, however, changed gears after the break, dishing out some good-looking strokes to eventually enter match point at 20-14 when her rival missed a shuttle at the backline.
She sealed the match next with a precise on-the-line return.
The fifth seeded Indian, who received a bye in the opening round, will face Beiwen Zhang of USA, who defeated Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen of Australia in straight games 21-14, 21-13.
The four-time medallist at the World Championships and World No.5 Indian has a 4-3 record against Zhang.
Sindhu, also an Olympic silver medallist, had lost to Zhang at the India Open finals last year.
Late on Tuesday, top seed Akane Yamaguchi tumbled out of the tumbled out of the tournament losing to Yeo Jia Min of Singapore 14-21, 18-21. However, former world No.1 Tai Tzu Ying faced no trouble as she eased past Fitriani Fitriani of Indonesia 21-15, 21-14.
Tai will next play Korean Kim Ga Eun, who beat 16th seed Cai Yan Yan of Chine 21-14, 16-21, 21-10 in the second round.
India’s Saina Nehwal will play Dutch Sorya De Vish Eijbergen on Wednesday, while India’s Kidambi Srikanth will meet Misha Zilberman of Israel in the men’s second round.
Among others, the Indian pairing of Jakkapudi Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram went down 8-21 18-21 to eighth seeds Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto of Japan in the women’s doubles competition.
