Tokyo [Japan], July 16 (ANI): Former world champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist shuttler PV Sindhu’s poor kind continued as she bowed out of the continuing Japan Open within the first spherical itself following a loss to South Korea’s Sim Yu Jin on Wednesday.
As per Olympics.com, Sindhu was enjoying her first match since June’s Indonesia Open, and the Sixteenth-ranked shuttler went right down to the world quantity 14 in two straight video games by 21-15, 21-14. This was her first loss to Sim of their 4 matches.
Sindhu’s begin was sluggish, and he or she was trailing by 9-3 within the opening sport, however the Indian fought again to make it 13-12, just for her opponent to make a comeback and take a successful lead.
The second sport adopted the identical sample as Sim raced to a 6-1 lead and Sindhu fought her method again to a 7-7 levelling, and later 11-11, however couldn’t win the sport.
This marks one other fast exit for Sindhu, who has had a poor 2025 up to now, together with her finest end being a quarterfinal run on the Indian Open again in January. Since then, she has confronted 4 first-round exits and two pre-quarterfinal finishes.
Earlier, India’s prime males’s singles and doubles contenders superior to the Round of 16 on the Japan Open 2025, with Lakshya Sen and the duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty notching straight-game victories of their opening matches on Wednesday.
Sen produced a composed efficiency to defeat China’s Wang Zheng Xing 21-11, 21-18, organising a second-round conflict with Japanese star and residential favorite Kodai Naraoka, as per a press launch from BAI Media.
In males’s doubles, Satwik and Chirag made a robust begin to their marketing campaign, easing previous South Korea’s Kang Min-hyuk and Ki Dong-ju 21-18, 21-10 to maneuver into the final 16. (ANI)