Australia Open: Sindhu knocked out in quarterfinals

Through PTI

SYDNEY: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu bowed out of the Australia Open after happening in directly video games to USA’s global quantity 12 Beiwen Zhang within the ladies’s singles quarterfinals right here on Friday.

Sindhu, who has slipped to global quantity seventeenth following a chain of early exits, used to be having a look to make her fourth semifinal of the season however discovered it tricky to tame Zhang, shedding 12-21 17-21 in 39 mins within the USD 420,000 tremendous 500 event.

In 10 previous conferences, Sindhu had received six instances in opposition to her opponent however she simply could not get happening Friday in opposition to the 33-year-old Chinese language-born American Zhang, who confirmed higher keep an eye on to return up trumps.

Sindhu had crushed compatriots Ashmita Chaliha and Aakarshi Kashyap within the first two rounds however her loss to Zhang would come as a large unhappiness as she heads to the International Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark to be held from August 21 to 27.

The 2019 global champion, Sindhu has been going via a lean patch since her restoration from an harm, and has again and again made early exits in as many as seven of the 12 BWF International Excursion occasions this yr.

Early this yr, Sindhu had parted tactics with Korea’s Park Tae-Sang after which in brief labored with SAI trainer Vidhi Chaudhary. She is recently coaching beneath new trainer Muhammad Hafiz Hashim, the 2003 All England champion.

Amongst different Indians in fray, HS Prannoy will face most sensible seed Anthony Ginting of Indonesia, whilst 2021 global championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth will tackle compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat later within the day. 

SYDNEY: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu bowed out of the Australia Open after happening in directly video games to USA’s global quantity 12 Beiwen Zhang within the ladies’s singles quarterfinals right here on Friday.

Sindhu, who has slipped to global quantity seventeenth following a chain of early exits, used to be having a look to make her fourth semifinal of the season however discovered it tricky to tame Zhang, shedding 12-21 17-21 in 39 mins within the USD 420,000 tremendous 500 event.

In 10 previous conferences, Sindhu had received six instances in opposition to her opponent however she simply could not get happening Friday in opposition to the 33-year-old Chinese language-born American Zhang, who confirmed higher keep an eye on to return up trumps.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Sindhu had crushed compatriots Ashmita Chaliha and Aakarshi Kashyap within the first two rounds however her loss to Zhang would come as a large unhappiness as she heads to the International Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark to be held from August 21 to 27.

The 2019 global champion, Sindhu has been going via a lean patch since her restoration from an harm, and has again and again made early exits in as many as seven of the 12 BWF International Excursion occasions this yr.

Early this yr, Sindhu had parted tactics with Korea’s Park Tae-Sang after which in brief labored with SAI trainer Vidhi Chaudhary. She is recently coaching beneath new trainer Muhammad Hafiz Hashim, the 2003 All England champion.

Amongst different Indians in fray, HS Prannoy will face most sensible seed Anthony Ginting of Indonesia, whilst 2021 global championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth will tackle compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat later within the day.