India’s ace shuttlers PV Sindhu and Srikanth Kidambi started off with straight-game victories in their group stage matches at the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals in Bali on Wednesday.
Former world No 1 secured a straight-game win over France’s Toma Junior Popov while reigning world champion Sindhu also followed that up with a solid win, and the exact same scoreline of 21-14, 21-16, against Denmark’s Line Christophersen.
Earlier in the day, the women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy lost 14-21, 18-21 to second-seeded Japanese combination of Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida in their opening group B match. It was a hard-fought battle with the Indians creating opportunities in the second game against a pair that has been in tremendous form in Bali but paid for a few costly unforced errors in their bid to force a decider.
Srikanth, who had reached the knockout stage of the 2014 edition of the year-ending event, beat Popov 21-14, 21-16 in 42 minutes in his opening match of group B. He displayed a compact game, made fewer errors than he has had a tendency to in recent times, was alert and agile on the court, as his attacking game was effective against the...
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