Paris [France], October 23 (ANI): Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu saved India’s marketing campaign alive on the French Open 2026 badminton event after defeating Chinese Taipei’s Chiu Pin-chian in straight video games to enter the ladies’s singles semi-finals on Friday.
The world No. 11 Indian shuttler defeated world No. 17 Chiu 21-13, 21-14 on the Arena Grand Paris in a quarter-final encounter that lasted 39 minutes, in line with Olympics.com.
Sindhu dominated proceedings from the outset, taking an 11-5 lead on the interval within the opening recreation earlier than comfortably closing it out. She carried the momentum into the second recreation, racing to a 7-0 benefit and sustaining her management to seal the match.
The victory marked Sindhu’s second win over Chiu, having additionally defeated the Chinese Taipei shuttler on the Asian Games 2026 final month.
Sindhu has now reached the semi-finals of 4 BWF World Tour tournaments this yr. She beforehand made the final 4 on the Malaysia Open in January and the Australian Badminton Open in June, earlier than profitable the Japan Open title in July.
The Indian will face both Indonesia’s world championships bronze medallist Putri Kusuma Wardani or Japan’s Hina Akechi within the semi-finals on Saturday.
Sindhu stays India’s solely contender on the BWF Super 750 event after Ashmita Chaliha bowed out within the quarter-finals earlier on Friday.
Chaliha, who had surprised three-time world champion Akane Yamaguchi within the pre-quarter-finals to register the largest win of her profession, went down 21-10, 17-21, 21-16 in opposition to Japan’s Olympic medallist Nozomi Okuhara, in line with Olympics.com.
India’s males’s singles marketing campaign had ended on Thursday after Ayush Shetty retired damage, whereas Lakshya Sen withdrew earlier than his opening-round match.
The Indian males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, together with the ladies’s doubles mixture of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, had additionally suffered opening-round exits. (ANI)