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PV Sindhu completes hat-trick of Macau Open titles

PTI | By, Macau
Nov 29, 2015 01:04 PM IST

P V Sindhu won her third successive women’s singles title at the $120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold after defeating Japan’s Minatsu Mitani in the finals at Macau on Sunday.

Two-time defending champion P V Sindhu won her third successive women’s singles title at the $120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold after defeating Japan’s Minatsu Mitani in the finals at Macau on Sunday.

A file picture of PV Sindhu celebrating a point against China’s Li Xuerei during their women’s singles match at the BWF World Badminton Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 13,2015.(AP Photo)
A file picture of PV Sindhu celebrating a point against China’s Li Xuerei during their women’s singles match at the BWF World Badminton Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 13,2015.(AP Photo)

Sindhu produced a dominating performance to notch up a 21-9 21-23 21-14 win against sixth seed Mitani in a match that lasted an hour and six minutes.

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The World No. 12 Sindhu dished out some superb strokes and acute angled returns to during the course of the game, besides making some sound judgements at the baseline to get across Mitani, who struggled to keep the shuttle inside the court.

Sindhu dominated the proceedings right from the start as she rode on the errors of Mitani to reach 11-5 at the break. Mitani came up with an aggressive rally and sealed it with a down the line smash but she failed to curb her errors and most of her returns went wide and long to allow Sindhu lead 17-6 in a jiffy.

Sindhu, on the other hand, was mostly accurate with her smashes and drops as she lead 19-9. The Indian came up with some acute angled returns to trouble Mitani and reached the game point with a smash. The Japanese then went wide to hand over the first game to Sindhu 21-9.

After the change of sides, Sindhu once again started on a confident note but she also began missing the lines and Mitani lead 4-2. The Indian checked her unforced errors and came up with stunning smashes to wrest the lead and move to 7-4.

Sindhu made a few wrong judgements at the baseline and also found the net to allow Mitani to surge ahead. At 10-9, Mitani produced her first winner -- a cross court smash --which left a stretched Sindhu stranded to go into the break with two-point lead.

Mitani started off with a service fault but the Japanese came up with accurate placements which caught Sindhu off guard. But the Indian kept breathing down her neck and clawed back at 16-16.

The duo moved neck-and-neck till 19-19 when Sindhu made an important line judgement to move to match point. But she sent the shuttle long next. A delicate net point once again gave Sindhu a 21-20 match point but Mitani saved again. Sindhu next hit long to give the game point to Mitani, who grabbed the opportunity after the Indian netted following a long engrossing rally.

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