PV Sindhu defeated the shuttler from Slovakia by 21-7, 21-9 in precisely 24 minutes. Sindhu faced very tiny resistance from Repiska as she moved into the spherical of 16.
Indian shuttler PV Sindhu (Source: Twitter)
Reigning world champion PV Sindhu began the defence of her title with straight games victory over Martina Repiska on Tuesday on the ongoing BWF World Championships 2021 in Huelva.
Two-time Olympic medallist Indian defeated shuttler from Slovakia by 21-7, 21-9 in precisely 24 minutes. Sindhu faced very tiny resistance from Repiska as she moved into the spherical of 16.
In men’s singles, Lakshya Sen needed to strive in opposition to past Kenta Nishimoto to switch into the next spherical. The Indian who’s making his debut at World Championships defeated the 15th seed shuttler from Japan by 22-20, 15-21, 21- 18 in a tall clash which lasted for one hour and 22 minutes.
Reigning world champion @Pvsindhu1 gets off to a solid launch up with an emphatic 21-7, 21-9 victory over Martina Repiska in the spherical 2 and marches into the pre quarters at #BWFWorldChampionships2021 #WorldChampionships2021#IndiaontheRise#Badminton pic.twitter.com/YBzDks6SwZ
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) December 14, 2021
Earlier in the boys’s doubles, India’s Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy sweat noteworthy in opposition to Chinese Taipei’s Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan.
The eight seeded-Indians, dropped 5-game parts in the first game as Lee/Yang stretched the pair of Shetty-Rankireddy to their limit. But Indians persevered to take 27-25. In the 2d game, Chirag and Satwik shifted their gears and dished out greater performance to prevail 21-17.
In an intensed match contains longer & longer rallies @lakshya_sen got the greater of Kenta Nishimoto 22-20, 15-21, 21-18 in the R32 and entered the pre quarters at #BWFWorldChampionships2021
Wisely played younger man #WorldChampionships2021#IndiaontheRise#Badminton pic.twitter.com/t0Y7MPnNl5
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) December 14, 2021
In other locations on court 1, Malaysian blended doubles pair of Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing moved past India’s Saurabh Sharma and Anoushka Parikh by 21-8, 21-18.
