All England Championship: Sindhu in second round after Lee withdrew from the match
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India’s PV Sindhu stormed into the second round of the women’s singles at the All England Championships after Germany’s Yvonne Lee withdrew from her first-round match on Tuesday. Former world champion and world number 11 Sindhu won the first game 21-10.
Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu of India advanced to the second round of women’s singles at the All England Championships after Germany’s Yvonne Lee withdrew from her first-round match on Tuesday. Former world champion and world number 11 Sindhu won the first game 21-10, after which world number 26 Lee decided to withdraw from the match.
28-year-old Sindhu from Hyderabad will next face top seed Ahn Se Young of Korea, against whom she has lost all six matches so far. Sindhu has managed to win a game against the world number one Korean player only once and she did so in the last encounter between the two players during the Asian Championships in Dubai last year. An Se, who is recovering from a right knee injury, won her second title of the season in the form of French Open on Sunday.
Sindhu started well against Li and after the score of 4-4, she scored consecutive points to lead 11-7 at the break. Even after this the Indian player scored points easily. Lee gave Sindhu 11 game points by hitting serve at the net. After this, the German player put the first game in Sindhu’s bag by hitting a shot outside.
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