PV Sindhu roared into the quarterfinals of Madrid Masters 2023 on Thursday after overcoming the problem of Indonesia’s Putri Kusuma WARDANI within the final 16. Sindhu, the two-time Olympic gold medallist prevailed 21-14, 21-16, to affix fellow Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth within the quarters.
Wardani, ranked thirty eighth within the BWF roster might barely problem the Indian shuttler who’s seeking to rediscover her kind after spending a variety of time for the reason that Birmingham Commonwealth Games on the sidelines attributable to accidents.
The contest that lasted for 36 minutes noticed the Indian ace dominate her opponent as she gained extra rally factors and discover her method into the subsequent spherical.
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In the quarterfinals, Sindhu is scheduled to tackle Mia Blichfeldt from Denmark.
Second seed Sindhu has been struggling for kind this season since returning to motion following a protracted harm layoff. It is the primary time in 2023 that the 27-year-old former world champion has crossed the second spherical.
Sindhu, who has dropped out of the highest 10 for the primary time since November 2016, will tackle 25-year-old Danish Mia Blichfeldt within the final eight stage of the Super 300 event.
Kiran George and Priyanshu Rajawat crashed out of the boys’s singles occasion after struggling second-round defeats.
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While George went all the way down to Denmark’s Magnus Johannesen 17-21 12-21 in 31 minutes, Rajat was outplayed 14-21 15-21 by eighth seed Toma Junior Popov of France.
Later within the day, Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashmita Chaliha Malvika Bansod and Sameer Verma will play their second-round matches.
The males’s and girls’s doubles pair of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila and Sikki Reddy and Arathi Sara Sunil may also be in motion.
(With inputs from PTI)
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