PV Sindhu has defeated Japan's Akane Yamaguchi in the quarterfinals of women's badminton singles on Friday, in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. The reigning world Champion Sindhu reached the semifinals of women's singles with a fighting straight-game win over world no 5 Yamaguchi.
Sindhu defended brilliantly to defeat Yamaguchi 21-13 22-20 in a 56-minute quarterfinal clash at the Musashino Forest Plaza. The match saw Yamaguchi stage a turnaround and level it in Game 2 after being down in the first set, and even starting down in the second.
However, Sindhu made a stronger comeback and got the score to 20-20 only to win it later on.
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She will next face the winner of the other quarterfinal between Thailand's Ratchanok Inthanon and Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying.
The Indian ace shuttler had defeated Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark on Thursday.
She is the lone Indian in fray in badminton after men's singles player B Sai Praneeth and men's doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy failed to qualify for the knockout stage.
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