Asia Badminton Team Championships: PV Sindhu wins yet India lose to Japan, still advance to quarter-finals

Asia Badminton Team Championships: PV Sindhu wins yet India lose to Japan, still advance to quarter-finals

Alor Setar: Indian ladies shuttlers progressed to the Badminton Asia Team Championship quarterfinals regardless of a 1-4 misfortune to Japan in which PV Sindhu indented the nation’s just win.

Sindhu broadened her control over World No 2 Akane Yamaguchi with a straight-diversion win.

In spite of the misfortune, India met all requirements for the quarter-last in both the ladies’ and men’s opposition.

The Indian ladies completed second in Group W with one win and one misfortune in front of Hong Kong China however behind Japan. The Sindhu-drove squad had crushed Hong Kong China 3-2 in its opening gathering tie.

With a rampaging 5-0 prevails upon bring down positioned Philippines and Maldives, the Indian men’s group too has fit the bill for the quarter-finals from Group D.

The Indian men will now be up against powerful Indonesia in their last Group D tie later in the day.

Taking the court to start with, Olympic silver-medallist Sindhu handed out a fine assaulting execution to beat Yamaguchi 21-19 21-15 out of 36 minutes.

By ideals of this win, World No 4 Sindhu now appreciates a 5-3 straight on record against Yamaguchi.

Nonetheless, Sindhu did not get enough help from her partners as Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli was no counterpart for World No 13 Sayaka Sato, losing the second singles 12-21 10-21 to enable Japan to draw level.

Duplicates expert Ashwini Ponnappa was then restrained 14-21 12-21 by world No.16 Aya Ohori in the third singles coordinate as Japan took a 2-1 lead.

It was then left to the copies experts to bring India once again into the tie yet both the Indian sets went down after a decent battle.

The onus was on Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant to draw equality for India yet they lost 17-21 17-21 against Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto in the main pairs match to hand Japan an unassailable 3-1 lead.

The content ended up being the same for India in the last unimportant match of the tie as Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy lost 18-21 18-21 to Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi.

(This Story originating from FIRSTPOST)