Olympics silver medalist p.v.sindhu avenged her heart-breaking loss at the 2016 RIO Olympics to two times` world champion Carolina Marin with a thrilling straight game victory in a do or die women single group b contest and sealed her place at the semifinals of the BWF finals here on Friday.
In much-anticipated contest, Sindhu came up trumps against the Olympic champion Martin,who had spoiled her gold medal dream at Rio in august.the Indian dished out an energetic performance to see off a fight Marin 21-17,21-13 in a hard fought battle that last 46-minutes.
A former world number-1Marin, who held a 5-2 head to head record, tried to play an aggressive fast-paced game and pumped herself with each , point letting out a war cry but Sindhu was equally up for the battle of nerves and she showed tremendous grit and nerves to emerge victories in a crucial matches.
with this win ,Sindhu finished in the second place behind china'sSun Yu, who won all the three matches in group B.
Both the players started an aggressive rally and even though Sindhu had a 2-0 lead early on, martin soon turned the tables at 4-3when the Indian hit long.
the Spaniard made it 7-3with Sindhu playing a few nervous strokes.
however,Sindhu changed her approach and got hold of her nerves and reeled off five points to lead 8-7.but again two long shots from Sindhu and Marin was 9-8 up.
In much-anticipated contest, Sindhu came up trumps against the Olympic champion Martin,who had spoiled her gold medal dream at Rio in august.the Indian dished out an energetic performance to see off a fight Marin 21-17,21-13 in a hard fought battle that last 46-minutes.
A former world number-1Marin, who held a 5-2 head to head record, tried to play an aggressive fast-paced game and pumped herself with each , point letting out a war cry but Sindhu was equally up for the battle of nerves and she showed tremendous grit and nerves to emerge victories in a crucial matches.
with this win ,Sindhu finished in the second place behind china'sSun Yu, who won all the three matches in group B.
Both the players started an aggressive rally and even though Sindhu had a 2-0 lead early on, martin soon turned the tables at 4-3when the Indian hit long.
the Spaniard made it 7-3with Sindhu playing a few nervous strokes.
however,Sindhu changed her approach and got hold of her nerves and reeled off five points to lead 8-7.but again two long shots from Sindhu and Marin was 9-8 up.
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