Sindhu shocks World No. 6 Miyazaki, Sat-Chi advance

PV Sindhu during her win over Japan’s Tomoka Miyazaki in Changzhou. Pic/AFP

Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu overcame World No. 6 Tomoka Miyazaki of Japan to make a promising start to her campaign at the China Open Super 1000 badminton tournament here on Wednesday.

Sindhu, a former world champion, prevailed 21-15, 8-21, 21-17 over the 2022 world junior champion Miyazaki in 62 minutes.

"It was a much-awaited win for me. The first round was very important for me to cross. It was three games [contest] and even in the third set, it was important for me to take the lead from the beginning because one side was very disadvantaged," Sindhu said.

The 30-year-old from Hyderabad will now face fellow Indian Unnati Hooda, a winner of two super 100 titles at the 2022 Odisha Masters and 2023 Abu Dhabi Masters.

The 17-year-old Unnati stunned Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour, a two-time medallist at the Commonwealth Games, 21-11, 21-16.

The World No. 15 men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also made a strong start, defeating Japan's Kenya Mitsuhashi and Hiroki Okamura 21-13, 21-9 in just 31 minutes.

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