Indonesia Open: PV Sindhu overcomes Yujin to make semis

Bali, November 26

India’s top shuttler PV Sindhu came back from a game down to beat South Korea’s Sim Yujin and enter the semifinals of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament here today.

The men’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty followed suit, beating Malaysia’s Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin 21-19 21-19 in 43 minutes to make the semis.

Third seed Sindhu, the reigning world champion, had to toil hard to get the better of Yujin 14-21 21-19 21-14 in the quarterfinals.

She will next play second seed Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand, who got the better of Japan’s Asuka Takahashi 21-17 21-12 in another women’s singles quarterfinals match.

However, the other Indian in the fray, B Sai Praneeth, lost 12-21 8-21 to Olympics champion and former world No.1 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in the men’s singles quarterfinals. — PTI