Bangkok: India shuttler PV Sindhu lost her second straight match of Group ‘B’ at the BWF World Tour Finals here on Thursday. Besides, Kidambi Srikanth also was defeated by Taiwan’s Wang Tzu-Wei in his second group-stage match in the ongoing tournament.
Sindhu, a day after losing her Group B opener against current world number one Tai Tzu Ying of Taiwan 21-19, 12-21, 17-21, she suffered a straight-game defeat vs Ratchanok Intanon.
Similarly, Srikanth lost to Wang 21-19, 9-21, 19-21 in a match that lasted for 78 minutes today.
On Wednesday, Srikanth was defeated by Denmark’s Anders Antonsen in his first group-stage match of the tournament.
Antonsen defeated Srikanth 15-21, 21-16, 21-18 in his first match in the World Tour Finals. The entire match lasted for one hour and 17 minutes. Srikanth came out all guns blazing in the first game and he did not give his opponent any chance, wrapping up the game 21-15 inside 22 minutes.
In the second game, Antonsen managed to change his fortunes around. With the winning momentum on his side, Antonsen capitalised in the third game and he walked away with a victory in the match.
