Indian ace shuttler and reigning world badminton champion P.V. Sindhu registered a tricky win over Japanese third seed Akane Yamaguchi to enter the ladies’s singles semi-finals of All England Open Championships in Birmingham on Friday
In a quarter-final match, Sindhu edged past Akane 16-21, 21-16, 21-19 in a single hour and 16 minutes within the Super 1000 match.
Now, fifth seed Sindhu will face sixth seed Pornpawee Chochuwong of Thailand within the semi-finals.
Earlier, in a quarter-final match, Pornpawee beat unseeded Beiwen Zhang of the USA 7-21, 21-13, 21-9 in 38 minutes.
Also on Friday, India’s Lakshya Sen crashed out within the quarter-finals, dropping to Mark Caljouw of the Netherlands 17-21, 21-16, 17-21. The match, which lasted 55 minutes, noticed the top of Indian problem in males’s singles.
Caljouw, who had overwhelmed Sen as soon as earlier than, received the primary set 21-17 in 17 minutes. He was main 11-8 at one level and maintained it to go 1-0 up. The 19-year-old Sen then bounced again within the second recreation, opening up a lead of 11-6 and later sealing the second recreation 21-16 to keep alive within the contest.
World No. 36 Caljouw, nevertheless, received the final recreation 21-17 to seal the conflict.
Sen had progressed to the lads’s singles quarter-finals on Thursday after beating France’s Thomas Rouxel 21-18, 21-17 in 53 minutes.
Earlier, Indian girls’s doubles pair Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy went down to the Netherlands’ Selena Piek and Cheryl Seinen in straight units within the quarter-finals. Ashwini and Sikki misplaced 22-24, 12-21 in 39 minutes on Friday.
Ashwini and Sikki had overwhelmed sixth seeds Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva of Bulgaria 21-17, 21-10 within the Round of 16.
