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Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025
PV Sindhu opened the new season with a fighting 22-24, 21-8, 21-17 win over 2012 London Games champion Li Xuerui of China.
The victory means defending champions Hunters would end the Pune leg of the cash-rich tournament on top of the leader-board.
Sindhu defeated local favourite Gregoria Mariska Tunjung 23-21, 21-7 to make the last-eight stage, while eighth seed Srikanth recorded a clinical 21-14, 21-9 win over Japan's Kenta Nishimoto.
The 30-year-old clinched the top honours in the women's singles SL3 final defeating world No. 1 and compatriot Parul Parmar 21-12, 21-7 to pick her maiden title in Basel, Switzerland on Sunday, the very day on which P V Sindhu won the gold at the Worlds.
Sindhu’s exceptional fitness regimen played a key role in her sheer dominance against Nozomi Okuhara in the final.
Sindhu has been the most consistent performer in the World Championships in the last few years with two back-to-back silver and as many bronze medals.
Among others, Indian pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy suffered a 16-21 19-21 loss to sixth seeded Chinese combination of Han Cheng Kai and Zhou Hao Dong in men's doubles.
Sindhu, who won back-to-back silver medals in the last two editions of the prestigious tournament to go with two bronze, edged past former world no 1 Tzu Ying 12-21 23-21 21-19 in a pulsating quarterfinals contest.
The list of the world's top 15 female athletes is topped by Serena Williams, with total earnings of $29.2 million. On the second spot is Naomi Osaka.
The World Championships gold has firmly put an end to her final jinx and with less than a year to go for the Tokyo Olympics it augurs well for both Sindhu and Indian badminton.
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