10th straight defeat: PV Sindhu falls to An Se Young, crashes out of Indonesia Open

NEW DELHI: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu's tally astatine the Indonesia Open ended successful the pre-quarterfinals connected Thursday aft she mislaid to satellite No. 1 An Se Young for the 2nd week successful a row.Sindhu, who had besides gone down to the South Korean successful the quarterfinals of past week's Singapore Open, mislaid 17-21, 14-21 successful the circular of 16 match.

Coming into the lucifer connected the backmost of a confidence-boosting opening-round triumph implicit Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan, Sindhu was hoping to yet interruption her duck against the Korean. However, An erstwhile again proved excessively accordant and composed successful cardinal moments.The effect extended Sindhu's losing streak against the reigning Olympic champion to 10 matches. The Indian shuttler is yet to bushed An successful their meetings.The opening crippled was intimately contested successful the aboriginal stages, with some players level astatine 10-10 midway done the game.

Sindhu showed signs of bully signifier and managed to occupation the apical effect connected respective occasions.The Indian moved up 15-14 with immoderate attacking play, but An responded rapidly and won a drawstring of points to instrumentality a 19-16 lead.The South Korean past claimed 2 consecutive points, including a 41-shot rally, to instrumentality the archetypal game.An continued her power successful the 2nd game, gathering a 13-6 vantage with her question and consistency astir the court.Sindhu kept warring and reduced the spread astatine antithetic stages, but An maintained power of the contest.The satellite No. 1 yet wrapped up the lucifer successful consecutive games to publication her spot successful the quarterfinals.