PV Sindhu's poor form ahead of the Paris Olympics continued as she has been knocked out of Singapore Open in second round. She lost to her nemesis Carolina Marin of Spain in the round of 16 who has won against Sindhu six consecutive times now since 2018.
The Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty recently won the Thailand Open and also achieved the World No.1 ranking. But the celebrated Indian duo shocking went down in the first round of the Singapore Open 2024. They lost to the Danish duo of Daniel Lundgaard and Mads Vestergaard.
This was Sindhu's first semifinal entry since the Thailand Open in May
While Mithun recorded win over compatriot Kidambi Srikanth in men's singles, Ashmita shocked Thailand's world number 12 Busanan Ongbamrungphan in women's singles.
The tournament organisers Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) and Badminton World Federation (BWF) jointly agreed to cancel the Singapore Open scheduled for June 1-6.
PV Sindhu defeated world No.18 Cai Yanyan of China 21-13, 17-21, 21-14 to set up a meeting with former world champion Nozomi Okuhara.
World number 6 Sindhu will next face China's Cai Yanyan, a 2017 BWF World Junior Championships bronze medallist.
Sixth seed Praneeth, who has been out of form of late, went down 21-16, 16-21, 18-21 to Igarashi in a match that lasted an hour and 11 minutes.
It will be the second time this season that two Indians will fight it out for the title at international badminton when K Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth had played in the finals of Singapore Open with the latter claiming his maiden Super Series title.
"Gopi Sir is my inspiration and it is because of him I took the sport," says the 24-year old.
The 24-year old who has stunned top shuttlers like Taufik Hidayat and Lee Chong Wei during his career feels he need to be more consistent and win big titles.
He won the Singapore Open on Sunday by defeating Kadambi Srikanth, his training partner at the Gopichand Badminton Academy here, giving a big boost to his confidence and career.
B Sai Praneeth today defeated Kidambi Srikanth to win the Singapore Open and clinch his maiden Super Series title.
Kidambi Srikanth and Sai Praneeth set up an exciting all-Indian men's singles final at the Singapore Open Super Series badminton tournament after comfortably winning their semifinal clashes here today.
Olympics gold medalist Carolina Marin today thrashed India’s star shuttler PV Sindhu in straight games of the quarter-final game of Singapore Open.
India’s star shuttler and Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu will face Spain's Carolina Marin in the quarter-final of the Singapore Open Super Series today.
Star Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu today whipped Fitriani Fitriani of Indonesia and entered into the quarterfinals of the USD 350,000 Singapore Open Superseries badminton tournament here on Thursday.
Star shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth registered contrasting wins in their respective categories to enter the second round of the Singapore Open Superseries badminton tournament here on Wednesday.
Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu, meanwhile, will look to put behind her disappointing first-round exit at Malaysia when she leads the Indian challenge here.
Singapore: India's campaign in the Singapore Open Super Series badminton tournament ended as Parupalli Kashyap conceded a one game advantage to go down to Hong Kong's Hu Yun in the semifinals of the men's singles
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