Kidambi Srikanth used his huge expertise to quell the problem of Lakshya Sen in straight video games in an all-Indian second spherical duel to progress to the quarterfinals whereas it was curtains for double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu on the Indonesia Open World Tour Super 1000 occasion right here on Thursday. It was a hard-fought battle between the 2 Indians however Srikanth bagged the essential moments together with his calmness and expertise to win 21-17 22-20 over Lakshya within the males’s singles match that lasted 45 minutes. The win ensured Srikanth’s dominance over his youthful countrymate as he took his head-to-head document to 3-0 over Lakshya.

However, world quantity 14 Sindhu made an early exit as soon as once more, dropping 21-18 21-16 to her nemesis and world quantity 3 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in a girls’s singles second spherical match.

Sindhu had made opening spherical exits from the final two occasions.

Tai Tzu, seeded third, has been the opponent Sindhu had struggled towards probably the most within the worldwide enviornment and it was no higher right here with the Chinese Taipei shuttler enhancing her head-to-head document over the Indian to a staggering 19-5.

Sindhu and Tai Tzu’s most up-to-date assembly was on the 2023 Sudirman Cup, the place the Chinese Taipei participant received 21-14 18-21 21-17.

With Sindhu’s loss, Indian problem got here to an finish within the girls’s singles occasion.

Earlier within the day, opposite to the ultimate end result it was Lakshya who began on a optimistic notice, taking an early 4-0 lead within the opening recreation earlier than Srikanth clawed his approach again.

It was even stevens until 17 factors earlier than Srikanth got here out attacking and used the courtroom to nice impact to tire out his youthful rival and win 4 straight factors to pocket the primary recreation.

The second recreation was no completely different as each shuttlers matched one another until 13 factors earlier than Srikanth received six straight factors to surge forward to 20-14.

But the 2021 world championships silver medallist squandered six match factors as Lakshya bounced again in fashion to attract degree at 20 apiece.

Srikanth, nonetheless, had the final snort as he saved his composure to win the subsequent two factors and seal the affair.

Srikanth will subsequent play Li Shi Feng of China, who upset fourth seed Loh Kean Yew of Singapore 21-19 21-14 in one other second spherical match.

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