{"id":35623,"date":"2018-06-29T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35623"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:01:14","slug":"kidambi-srikanth-pv-sindhu-reach-quarters-saina-nehwal-crashes-out-of-malaysia-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/kidambi-srikanth-pv-sindhu-reach-quarters-saina-nehwal-crashes-out-of-malaysia-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu reach quarters; Saina Nehwal crashes out of Malaysia Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth notched up straight-game wins to progress to the quarterfinals but it was curtains for Saina Nehwal in the USD 700,000 Malaysia Open world tour super 750 tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Olympic and world championship silver medallist Sindhu brushed aside the challenge of Malaysia’s Ying Ying Lee 21-8, 21-14 to set up a clash with Olympic champion and former world no 1 Carolina Marin. The 22-year-old Indian has a 5-6 head-to-head record against the Spaniard.<\/p>\n

In men’s singles, fourth seed Srikanth saw off Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei 22-20, 21-12 in 36 minutes to take his head-to-head count to 3-0.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old from Guntur, who had briefly become world no 1 in April, will clash with France’s Brice Leverdez tomorrow. The Indian had beaten the world no 22 French in three games at All England Championship this year.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Saina’s run at the Malaysia Open ended with a straight-game loss to Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi.<\/p>\n

Saina, a two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, went down 15-21, 13-21 to world no 2 Yamaguchi in 36 minutes at the Axiata Arena in Bukit Jalil, a suburb in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

This is Saina’s sixth straight loss to the Japanese in seven meetings. The only time Saina had defeated Yamaguchi was in the 2014 China Open.<\/p>\n

World No 3 Sindhu hardly broke any sweat as she first opened up a 6-4 lead and then reeled off eight straight points to jump to 14-4.<\/p>\n

In the second game, Sindhu again held an 8-7 lead before moving to 13-7. Lee tried to make a comeback but Sindhu was always ahead as she comfortably sailed into the quarters.<\/p>\n

In the men’s singles, Srikanth zoomed to a 11-3 lead at the break after dominating the proceedings right from the start. Wang, however, didn’t give up and kept breathing down Srikanth’s neck to eventually claw back at 20-20.<\/p>\n

But Srikanth grabbed the two crucial points to pocket the opening game.<\/p>\n

In the second game, Srikanth was ruthless as he surged to 10-2 advantage and despite Wang trying to step up his attack, the Indian kept his composure to seal the contest comfortably.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Yamaguchi, who had struggled a bit against Saina during their last meeting at the Uber Cup Final, produced a dominating show as she led 9-2 in the first game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indian star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth notched up straight-game wins to progress to the quarterfinals but it was curtains for Saina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35625,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35623\/revisions\/35625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}