Sindhu Downs Miyazaki, Unnati Beat Gilmour, Satwik-Chirag Advance at China Open

Double Olympic medalist P.V. Sindhu overcame world No. 6 Tomoka Miyazaki of Japan to make a promising start to her campaign at the China Open Super 1000 badminton tournament here on Wednesday.

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Sindhu, a former world champion, prevailed 21-15, 8-21, 21-17 over the 2022 world junior champion Miyazaki in a hard-fought 62-minute encounter.

"It was a much-awaited win for me. The first round was very important for me to cross. It was three games (contest) and even in the third set, it was important for me to take the lead from the beginning because one side was very disadvantaged," Sindhu said.

"So, it started off really good, but in the second game, it was hard for me to control. And in the third game, it was important that I take the lead and maintain that.