Indian badminton star PV Sindhu on Friday reached the semi-final of the 2023 Denmark Open Super 750 in Odense. The two-time Olympic medallist secured her place in the last-four with a comfortable straight-games win over Thailand’s Supanida Katethong.
The Thai player started strongly taking a 5-2 lead in the opening game, but Sindhu soon found her groove and the pair exchanged points before the Indian pulled ahead to take a 12-8 lead. Despite holding the upper hand, Sindhu gave some easy points away to her opponent but did enough to take the first game 21-19.
The Indian took the momentum into the second game and took a 9-6 lead. Katethong brought Sindhu’s lead down to a point but at 10-9, Sindhu won the next six points to knock the wind out of Katethong’s sails.
The Indian dropped just three points after that as she secured a comfortable 21-19, 21-12 win and reach her fifth semi-final on the BWF tour this season.
After a poor season compared to her standards, Sindhu has now reached back-to-back semi-finals after making it to the last-four of the Finland Open last week.
The Indian will next face an old rival in Carolina Marin in the semi-finals. Marin, who beat Sindhu in the final of the 2016 Olympics, got the better of Tai Tzu Ying in the quarter-final.
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