Badminton Asia Championship: PV Sindhu cruises into 2nd spherical with straight-sets win

India’s PV Sindhu cruised into the second spherical of the Badminton Asia Championships with a straight-sets win over Indonesia’s Ester Nurumi Tri Wardoyo on Wednesday, April 9. Sindhu received the match 21-15, 21-19 in a match that lasted 44 minutes.

Sindhu’s win was a welcome outcome for the Indian contingent after Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy crashed out of the competitors. The Indian ace, who’s ranked seventeenth within the ladies’s singles rankings, took an early lead earlier than Wardoyo levelled issues up at 9-9. Nonetheless, Sindhu was in a position to take the lead on the break to have the benefit.

From there, Sindhu established a four-point lead earlier than Wardoyo confirmed some indicators of a comeback. Nonetheless, Sindhu took the primary set by claiming 4 factors on the trot to take the lead within the contest. The second set noticed the Indian ace battle bit first and path the Indonesian within the early levels.

Nonetheless, Sindhu was in a position to claw again within the contest and take a slender lead on the break. The Indian ace was saved on her toes by Wardoyo, who levelled all of it up at 19-19. Sindhu was in a position to overcome the stress in the long run and sealed the sport and arrange a conflict with Akane Yamaguchi within the subsequent spherical.

Badminton Asia Championships 2025: India outcomes on April 9

Males’s singles

• Lu Guangzu (CHN) bt HS Prannoy 21-16, 12-21, 21-11
• Kiran George bt Dmitriy Panarin (KAZ) 21-16, 21-8
• Lee Chia-hao (TPE) bt Lakshya Sen 21-18, 21-10
• Priyanshu Rajawat bt Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA) 20-22, 21-12, 21-10

Males’s doubles

• Chiu Hsiang-chieh/Wang Chi-lin (TPE) bt Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy/Sai Pratheek Okay 21-19, 21-12
• Hariharan Amsakarunan/Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi bt Madhuka Dulanjana/Lahiru Weerasinghe (SRI) 21-3, 21-12

Ladies’s singles

• Ratchanok Intanon (THA) bt Anupama Upadhyaya 21-13, 21-14
• Han Yue (CHN) bt Aakarshi Kashyap 21-13, 21-7
• Gao Fang jie (CHN) bt Malvika Bansod 21-14, 21-8
• PV Sindhu bt Ester Nurumi Tri Wardoyo (INA) 21-15, 21-19

Ladies’s doubles

• Sung Shuo-yun/Yu Chien-Hui (TPE) bt Priya Konjengbam/Shruti Mishra 21-11, 21-13