Indian badminton ace PV Sindhu reached the final of the women’s singles

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Indian badminton ace PV Sindhu reached the final of the women’s singles competition at the Madrid Spain Masters 2023 with a 24-22, 22-20 semi-final win over Singapore’s Yeo Jia Min on Saturday.  

PV Sindhu, ranked 11th in the badminton rankings, started slowly as her opponent quickly raced to a 13-8 lead in the first game. However, the Indian badminton player fought back to reduce the deficit to 15-17.

Yeo Jia Min made it 20-17 but could not make it count as PV Sindhu saved three game points before taking the all-important lead.


In the second game, PV Sindhu carried the momentum forward and took a slender lead only to see Yeo Jia Min fight back and level the score at 17-17.

Thereafter, PV Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medallist, stepped up her game once again to seal the match in 48 minutes.

PV Sindhu will play Indonesia's Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, who beat 2016 Rio Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain in the other semis, in the title decider on Sunday. It will be the Indian badminton player's first final of the year.

With this win, PV Sindhu leads 4-0 in the head-to-head record against Yeo Jia Min. They met at the Commonwealth Games last year where PV Sindhu won in straight games. The former world champion is yet to drop a game against the Singaporean.

The 27-year-old PV Sindhu had struggled for form this season since making a comeback after a long injury lay-off following her gold medal win in the women's singles at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.

Before this tournament, PV Sindhu had failed to progress beyond the second round in any of the BWF World Tour she competed in this year.

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