Strategy worked against Chochuwong, want to give my best against Tai: Sindhu on reaching Worlds QF

Defending champion PV Sindhu stormed into the women’s singles quarterfinals of the BWF World Championships with a straight-games win over Pornpawee Chochuwong of Thailand in Huelva on Thursday.

The world number 7 Indian defeated her Thai opponent, ranked three places below her, 21-14 21-18 in the pre-quarterfinal match that lasted 48 minutes.

The reward for Sindhu will be a rematch of Basel 2019’s quarter-final where she takes on world No 1 Tai Tzu Ying. With her win against Chochuwong, Sindhu kept up her record of not losing before the quarterfinals at the World Championships in her career.

PV Sindhu at World Championships:

2013: Semifinal

2014: Semifinal

2015: Quarterfinal

2017: Final

2018: Final

2019: Champion

2021: Reached QF

With the win, Sindhu, seeded sixth in the showpiece tournament, extended her head-to-head record against Chochuwong to 5-3. Sindhu also avenged her twin loss to Chochuwong this season – group match of BWF World Tour Finals earlier this month and All England Championships semi-finals in March.
The double Olympic medallist Sindhu faces top seed and world number one Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei, who beat Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland 21-10 19-21 21-11, in the quarterfinals.

Sindhu took an early 5-1 lead but Chochuwong rallied to narrow the gap to 5-4 and then to 10-9. The Indian zoomed ahead from…

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