When India batting legend Sachin Tendulkar was in top form, in 1997-98, at the age of 24, it was said that no one could get him out other than himself. World No. 1 Tai Tzu Ying's dominance on the badminton courts this year, has been such, and she's 24 too. That Tendulkar and Tzu Ying stand almost equally tall, at 5-feet-3 and 5-feet-4 respectively, is another correlation. And finally, their sheer talent and strokeplay matches to a tee as well.

Yesterday, at the Istora GBK Sports Complex, Tzu Ying came, saw and comfortably conquered India's star shuttler PV Sindhu 21-13, 21-16 in the gold medal match. World Championships and Olympic silver medal-winner Sindhu won a total of 29 points in the match, but amazingly, 18 of those were gifted away to the Indian by Tzu Ying, who either hit into the net, hit wide, hit long or worse still, served long. Sindhu celebrated most of her points, just like Tendulkar's opponents would have celebrated his dismissals.