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  PV Sindhu settled for silver as she lost a one-sided final to Carolina Marin of Spain played at Switzerland, Basel on Sunday. It was a close start by both players who played long rallies and equaled at 4-4. After that, Marin played with aggression maintaining pressure on PV Sindhu. At the mid-game interval, the Spaniard took an 11-7 lead. After the break, Marin looked in complete control and produced smashes making life tough for the Indian, and won the first game easily at 21-12. The second game saw Carolina Marin played with aggression and maintained consistent pressure on Indian with smashes taking a commanding 5-0 lead. Marin was simply unstoppable with her smashes to take a commanding 11-2 lead at the interval. After the interval, Spaniard kept on putting pressure on the Indian and won the game with 21-5 to take the women’s singles title. It was an impressive performance by PV Sindhu after a disappointing outing in the previous three tournaments. The Indian showed thei...

  PV Sindhu was the only Indian shuttler to make it into the finals while Kidambi Srikanth and men’s doubles pair of RankiReddy and Chirag Shetty lost at the Super 300 Swiss Open played at Basel, Switzerland on Saturday.   PV Sindhu defeated Denmark’s Mia Blichedft of Denmark in two straight sets. In the first game, both players took alternate points and maintained this till 8-8. Sindhu played with aggression and had an 11-8 lead at the interval. After the break, the Indian dominated the Danish player taking 17-12 lead. Blichedft took 5 points in succession as Sindhu committed few mistakes and leveled the scores at 17-17. Both players continued this till 20-20 before the Indian won the first game at 22-20. The second game saw Sindhu dominating the Danish player with smashes and drops shots. Sindhu was simply unstoppable taking an 11-5 lead at the interval. After the break, the Indian maintained the domination winning it at 21-10 to qualify for the finals. It was Sindhu’s f...

  The Indian shuttlers had a great outing as most of them moved into the second round of the Super 300 Swiss Open 2021 played at Basel, Switzerland on Wednesday. Kidambi Srikanth defeated Indian counterpart Sameer Verma in a thrilling match going into 3 sets. It was a brilliant start for Sameer who created pressure on Srikanth taking lead right from word go. At the mid-game interval, Sameer took an 11-5 lead. After the break, Srikanth tried to make a comeback into the game with brilliant attacking play, but Sameer held his nerves to win the first game at 21-18. In the second game, Srikanth made a strong comeback putting pressure on Sameer. It was an amazing display making life tough for his counterpart. After taking a mid-game break at the interval, despite Sameer's efforts, Srikanth won the second game at 21-18. The third game was a dominating display by Srikanth who never allowed his opponent to comeback into the match and won the third game easily at 21-11 to move into the...