Third seed Sindhu bounced back after losing a close first game to record a 21-23, 21-13, 21-18 win in her second round women's singles match.
The third-seeded PV Sindhu defeated World No. 39 Saena Kawakami of Japan 21-15, 21-13 in the opening round at the Olympic Sports Center Xincheng Gymnasium.
Sindhu, who has endured a hectic BWF season reaching five finals including three majors at CWG, World Championship and Asian Games, seemed mentally drained as errors crept into her game.
Sindhu had to sweat it out for 53 minutes before prevailing 21-17 7-21 21-13 over unseeded local girl Sayaka Takahashi in her women's singles opening round.
Among the men, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy will look to get over the disappointing campaigns in the World championship and the Asian Games.
With today's performance, India rose a rung to eighth in the overall standings with a total of 50 medals, nine of them gold, 19 silver and 22 bronze medals.
PV Sindhu is now the first Indian badminton player to win an individual silver medal at the Asian Games.
It was Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu-ying who got the better of PV Sindhu once again, defeating her in straight sets 21-13, 21-16 to win the gold medal.
Neeraj's gold and three other athletics silver medals, along with Saina Nehwal's badminton singles bronze, propelled India's overall medal count to 41.
Saina was beaten in straight games by Tai Tzu in the semifinals, setting the Taipei player up against another Indian in Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu in the final.
After the women's team went down 1-3 to top seeds Japan earlier in the day, the men's team put up a spirited effort before losing 1-3 to hosts Indonesia.
The Indian women's team, which won a historic bronze in the last edition in Incheon, lost the quarterfinal to the top-seeded and the most formidable team in the world.
Most athletes and their coaches have already acknowledged that the Asiad is going to be a different ball game than the Commonwealth given the presence of powerhouses such as China, Japan and Korea.
The players, the coaches, the support staff all of them put in efforts to be in good shape, said the Indian badminton chief coach as India take off for Jakarta.
After Sindhu's latest loss in World Championships, many of her critics have gone on to call her a 'choker'. However, the 23-year-old girl from Hyderabad is not in the mood to pull herself down and is motivated as never before.
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Indian women's team had won a bronze medal at Incheon four years ago and Sindhu hoped they can change the colour of the medal this time.
The former All England Champion backed Sindhu to win the World Championship crown soon after two consecutive silver medal performances in the prestigious event.
The 23-year-old further asserted that though she gave her 100 per cent in the tournament, she would definitely work on her weak areas.
Sindhu lost the BWF World Championships 2018 finals by 19-21, 10-21 and had to be satisfied with the silver yet again.
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