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P. V. Sindhu Crashes Out, Srikanth Reaches QF

Sanjana Mukhiya

India's Kidambi Srikanth entered the quarter-finals of Malaysia Open badminton while PV Sindhu, who made many mistakes, went out in straight games.

India's Kidambi Srikanth made it to the men's singles quarterfinal but an erratic P V Sindhu went down in straight games in women's singles competition at the USD 750000 Malaysia Open on Thursday.

Eighth-seeded Srikanth, who had reached the finals of a BWF World Tour event after 17 months at the India Open last week, defeated Thailand's Khosit Phetpradab 21-11 21-15 in little over half an hour to set up a meeting with Olympic champion and fourth seed Chen Long of China.

The 26-year-old is now the lone Indian survivor in the BWF World Tour Super 750 tournament.

Fifth seed Sindhu blew a 13-10 advantage in the opening game to go down rather meekly 18-21 7-21 to world No 10 Sung Ji Hyun for her third straight defeat to the Korean. The Indian had to the Korean in the first round of All England Championship and 2018 Hong Kong Open.

Srikanth, who reached the finals of India Open last week, defeated Thailand's Khosit Phetpradab 21-11, 21-15.

In the women's singles match, Sindhu made good rallies and also made a three-point lead. After this, the Koreans made a comeback and two shots of Sindhu went out. After losing the first game, Sindhu made many mistakes in the second game, which the opponent took full advantage of.

After the interval, Sung Ji erased the deficit and grabbed a 16-14 lead after Sindhu miscued two shots.

A backhand aimed at the body helped Sung Ji to move up to 19-16. Sindhu then misjudged the shuttle twice at the backline to hand over the opening game to her rival.

Sung Ji raced to a 5-0 lead early on before moving to 10-5. A precise down-the-line return helped her to grab an 11-6 advantage at the break. It was one-way traffic after the breather as the Korean took 10 of the next 11 points as Sindhu made some uncharacteristic mistakes.

Eventually, two unforced errors from the Indian helped Sung Ji seal the quarterfinals spot.

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