PV Sindhu Olympics 2024 Match: It took Sindhu just 29 minutes to defeat her opponent, who was rated lower, in the Group M match, demonstrating the obvious class difference between the two players.
Indian shuttler PV Sindhu, a two-time Olympian, kicked off her Paris Olympics 2024 campaign on Sunday by crushing Fathimath Abdul Razzaq of the Maldives in straight games in the women’s singles group round match.
Following several careless mistakes, PV Sindhu quickly evaluated the situation, took charge of her first Olympics 2024 match, and accelerated to an 11-4 lead.
With the first game over in just 13 minutes, the former world champion defeated Fathimath, ranked 111th in the world at the Paris 2024 Olympics badminton tournament.
In the second game, the result of the match goes similarly. PV Sindhu quickly took the lead by scoring the first four points at the 2024 Olympics.
But Razzaq took advantage of Sindhu’s mistake to close the score to 3–4. However, the Indians extended the lead to 10-3, making it an entirely one-sided game once more.
Even though Sindhu ultimately had 14 match points, the world No. 13 only needed one to win the tie.
When is PV Sindhu’s next match?
PV Sindhu, who took home a silver medal from the Rio Games in 2016 and a bronze from the most recent edition in Tokyo, her next match schedule opposite to World No. 75 Kristin Kuuba of Estonia on Wednesday.
Paris Olympics 2024 Badminton Highlights
Before their opening group stage men’s doubles match on Saturday, medal contenders Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty gave notice of their intentions by winning easily in straight games following a singles ace. Lakshya Sen had a successful start to his first Olympic campaign. But in a 44-minute Group C league match, Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto’s women’s doubles team lost to Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong of South Korea, 18-21 10-21.
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