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P. V. Sindhu Crashed Out Of Denmark Open Badminton

Two time Olympic medalist P. V. Sindhu went down to  2016  Olympic gold medalist Carolina Marin in the semi finals of the Denmark Open Badminton Championship. The match was played in Jyske Bank Arena in Odense.  World number six Marin won by  21-18, 19-21, 21-7 in the match that lasted  71 minutes.

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This was  11th loss for the Indian against Marin in their 16th head-to-head meeting. The two also met in the finals of 2016 Olympics at Rio De Janeiro with Marin trouncing Sindhu. Sindhu, who last beat Marin at the Malaysia Open in 2018, extended her losing streak against the Spaniard to five matches.

The first game saw the two played up to their potential and exchange  leads before the break. The Indian went into the mid-game interval with a slender one-point lead and held onto it for the most part. However, Marin used her smashes to trouble Sindhu and took the first game by winning the final four points.

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Sindhu began the second game with much energy and raced to an 11-3 lead. Marin engaged Sindhu in longer rallies and fought back with seven straight points before the Indian started to turn the rallies around with her defensive skills to make it 14-10. Carolina Marin kept finding timely responses with a good mix of net play and smashes and saved three game points but Sindhu’s early lead proved to be decisive at the end of the second game.

Sindhu struggling with injuries since winning the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games last year, ran out of energy in the deciding game to lose the match.

Debajit Kar

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