India’s Pride, Olympic Silver Medallist P.V. Sindhu lost another game and again in the second round while competing against He Bingjiao of China in the women’s singles competition at the USD 300,000 French Open Super Series badminton tournament on Friday.
Sixth seed Sindhu, who had beaten Bingjiao last week at the Denmark Open, could not defeat her rival this time and lost 20-22, 17-21 to her counterpart in the 41-minute match.
Sindhu had a 12-8 and 20-18 lead in the opening game as Bingjiao could not play well and just gave away four points to Sindhu.
In the second game, returning back to the game, Bingjiao did not give Sindhu much chance to make a comeback like the first game as she led from the front, moving to 11-6 at the break and then getting to a 18-9 lead.
Sindhu tried hard enough and reduced down the gap to 17-19 before the Chinese sportsperson did her part to make sure that Sindhu was out of the league.
On the other hand, India’s H S Prannoy also failed to cross the second round in Men’s Single as he lost 19-21, 16-21 to fifth seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipeiin in the 42-minutes match.
Prannoy was ahead at 8-5 and 18-15 but he gave Chou a chance at the final stages to finish the game and win the first match.
In the second game, Chou was more very strong as he opened up a 9-4 lead and even though Prannoy caught up at 14-14, Chou zoomed ahead without much efforts to win the match.
With both the Indians loosing their respective games, the campaign of Indian Badminton Playere in the French Open Badminton League came to an end in the second round.