Last Updated: April 02, 2023, 18:07 IST
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PV Sindhu misplaced to Gregoria Mariska Tunjung 8-21, 8-21 in the ultimate of the Madrid Spain Masters 2023
India’s two-time Olympic medallist and former World Champion PV Sindhu misplaced in 29 minutes to Indonesia’s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung 8-21, 8-21 in the ultimate of the Madrid Spain Masters 2023 on Sunday.
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It was Sindhu’s first ultimate since successful the gold and the Commonwealth Games final 12 months.
Sindhu had defeated Yeo Jia Min of Singapore in the semifinal with the 27-year-old from Hyderabad prevailing 24-22,22-20 in the closely-fought 48-minute encounter.
Sindhu defeated Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark 21-14, 21-17 in the quarter-final, Indonesia’s Putri Kusuma Wardani 21-14, 21-16 in the pre-quarters and Jenjira Stadelmann of Switzerland 21-10, 21-14 in the primary spherical.
Sindhu, who had failed to progress past the second spherical in the BWF World Tour occasions she competed in thus far, reached her first ultimate of the 2023 season as she gathered momentum as she had missed all the second half of the 2022 season after struggling an damage throughout in Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in August.
Sindhu is the one Indian shuttler remaining in the fray in the Madrid Spain Masters 2023 as Kidambi Srikanth was ousted in the lads’s singles quarterfinals.
The look in the ultimate got here as an enormous morale enhance for Sindhu, who has been struggling for kind this season since returning to motion following an extended damage lay off.
Sindhu has dropped out of the highest 10 for the primary time since November 2016.
She made a first-round exit from the distinguished All England Championship and failed to defend her Swiss Open Super 300 badminton title earlier this month.
She had made first-round exits on the Indian Open and Malaysia Open in January.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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