PV Sindhu loses to China’s Sun Yu in BWF World Superseries Finals - Hindustan Times
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PV Sindhu loses to China’s Sun Yu in BWF World Superseries Finals

ByPress Trust of India
Dec 15, 2016 09:13 PM IST

PV Sindhu suffered her first loss of BWF World Superseries Finals when she went down to China’s Sun Yu in her second round-robin group league match on Thursday.

Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu lost her second Group B match at the BWF World Super Series Finals going down to Sun Yu of China in straight games in Dubai on Thursday.

PV Sindhu of India plays a shot against China’s Sun Yu during their women's singles badminton match during the World Superseries Finals.(AFP)
PV Sindhu of India plays a shot against China’s Sun Yu during their women's singles badminton match during the World Superseries Finals.(AFP)

Sindhu, who recently clinched the China Super Series Premier and reached the finals at Hong Kong Open, lost 15-21 17-21 to World No. 6 Chinese in a contest that lasted 49 minutes.

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Sindhu, who had defeated higher-ranked Akane Yamaguchi of Japan during her opening match yesterday, found the going tough against her Chinese opponent.

World and Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain also figures in her same group and Sindhu will have task cut out when she faces the Spaniard on Friday.

In the opening round, Sindhu was always playing a catch-up game and never looked in contention, even as the Chinese girl kept on marching ahead to clinch the first game rather comfortably.

World No 10 Sindhu, however, put up some fight in the second game as took a lead and maintained a slight edge till 15-13 but the Chinese came from behind and made it 15-15 before bagging two more points to go ahead 17-15.

Although Sindhu won the next two points to make it 17-17, the Chinese won four consecutive points thereafter to shut the door on the Indian girl.

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