Badminton Asia C’ships: Sindhu enters semis

PV Sindhu. Pic/AFP

Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu eked out a thrilling win over China's He Bing Jiao to enter the women's singles semi-finals of the Badminton
Asia Championships here on Friday.

With this win, Sindhu assured herself of a medal in the continental individual championships, which is making a return after a gap of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fourth-seeded Sindhu, who had claimed a bronze in the 2014 Gimcheon edition, got the better of the fifth seeded Chinese 21-9, 13-21, 21-19 in a quarter-final match that lasted an hour and 16 minutes.

Later in the day, the fifth seeded Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik beat India's Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty 12-21, 21-14, 21-16.

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