PV Sindhu wins Singapore Open title

Indian badminton player PV Sindh won her first Singapore Open title after beating Chinese shuttler Wang Zhi Yi in the final of the Singapore Open 2022 (Women’s Singles) this Sunday (17th July). It is her third title in the BWF World Tour 2022.

The final scoreline of that ultimate round of the Singapore Open 2022 (Women’s Singles) was 21-9, 11-21, 21-15 in favour of Sindhu.

After both convincingly won one game each in that final match, they had a neck-to-neck battle for almost the first half of the third game. Once struggling on 11-6, Wang made the scoreline very closer to 12-11. But then the experienced Indian shuttler got the advantage of 15-11, and she maintained her handsome growth despite Wang’s strong battle.

PV Sindhu wins Singapore Open title

It was Sindhu’s third title in the BWF World Tour 2022. Earlier, she won two Super 300 level tournaments in this calendar tour, Syed Modi International and Swiss Open. In the BWF World Tour 2022 (Women’s Singles), Sindhu became the first player to win three titles.

In the meantime, Wang is still waiting for her first title in the ongoing BWF World Tour 2022, as it was her second runners-up experience in this calendar tour after losing the Indonesia Open 2022 (Level: Super 1000) final against the second-ranked Taiwanese star Tai Tzu-ying (23-21, 6-21, 15-21).

Last Saturday (16th July), the seventh-ranked Sindh comfortably reached the final of this competition after thrashing Japanese shuttler Saena Kawakami in the semi-final. In that 31-minute match, the scoreline was 20-15, 21-7. The 27-year-old Indian earlier beat Belgian Lianne Tan, Vietnamese Nguyen Thuy Linh and Chinese Han Yue respectively in this competition.

On the other hand, the 11th ranked Wang beat Japanese Aya Ohori by 21-14, 21-14 in the other semi-final of this Super 500 level tournament. Taiwanese Hus Wen-chi, Japanese Natsuki Nidaira and Indonesian Gregoria Mariska Tunjung were the other three earlier knock-out stage opponents of Wang in this tournament.

PV Sindhu became the second Indian Women’s Single player to win the Singapore Open title. Saina Nehwal created that history for the first time in 2010.

Also, B. Sai Praneeth is still the only Indian Men’s Single player to clinch the Singapore Open title, which he recorded in 2017.