Denmark Open badminton: PV Sindhu shows familiar failings as she loses to Indonesian Gregoria MariskaTunjung in quarters | Badminton News
A second-game revival did little to help PV Sindhu free herself from the silken web of Gregoria MariskaTunjung’s shotmaking, as the Indian lost her quarterfinal of the Denmark Open despite a mid-match defiance. Sindhu faded out 13-21, 21-16, 9-21 in 57 minutes in Odense against the Paris Olympics bronze medallist, with most of the warts in her game repeatedly exposed under the glare of the Indonesian’s simple strategy of making the Indian twist and turn. In the opener, playing from the relatively unhelpful side, it was Sindhu’s flank defence that Tunjung picked to drill holes, with the most basic of attacking plays for 16 minutes. The simplicity of Tunjung’s classical game is how she appears to sleep-walk through it, even while it’s solidly effective. She alternated Sindhu across and straight close to the sidelines, and threw in a variation of two straights or crosses once in a while. The Indian’s side movements were not sharp to retrieve on opposing wings, and her reach comes to naught if she doesn’t anticipate and commit to the yo-yo-ing …
