India’s ace shuttler PV Sindhu breezed into the second round of the women’s singles event at French Open after crushing Beiwen Zhang in straight games for a revenge win, here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Sindhu, seeded third, disposed off unseeded Zhang 21-17, 21-8 in just 34 minutes to avenge her loss at the hands of the same opponent in the opening round of the Denmark Open, last week.<\/p>\n
By virtue of this win, Sindhu has managed to break her hat-trick of losses against the American and equalled the head-to-head record at 3-3.<\/p>\n
The agony of first round exit at Denmark Open still in her mind, Sindhu, however, started slowly as Zhang took a marginal lead. But the Indian rode on her aggressive approach to roar back to a 7-4 and then a 10-6 lead.<\/p>\n
The American then stunned her fancied opponent to pocket five straight points to reclaim the lead at 11-10.<\/p>\n
It was neck-and-neck thereafter till 16 points before Sindhu seized the initiative and pocketed the first game 21-17.<\/p>\n
The second game too was a close affair initially as both the players were locked at 3-3 at one stage before world no. 3 Sindhu upped her game to take a 11-6 lead.<\/p>\n
Zhang managed to garner two more points before Sindhu sealed the affair in quick time.<\/p>\n
The Rio Olympics silver medallist will next face the winner of first round match between Cheung Ngan Yi of Hong Kong and Japan’s Sayaka Sato.<\/p>\n
However, it was curtains for less-fancied Indian men’s doubles pair of Arjun M R and Shlok Ramachandran as they lost 14-21 17-21 to Chinese pair of Li Junhui and Liu Yunchen in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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