Madrid Spain Masters: PV Sindhu, Ashwini/Tanisha quarters- HIGHLIGHTS
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Indian badminton star PV Sindhu
Madrid Spain Masters LIVE: Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu and women's doubles pair Tanisha Crasto/Ashwini Ponnappa will be in action in the pre-quarters of the Madrid Spain Masters.
India's challenge in men's singles ended as Kidambi Srikanth, Kiran George, and Mithun Manjunath lost in the first round.
In mixed doubles, B Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy will be in action.
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Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto strengthened their chances for the Olympics after defeating Tiffany Ho and Gronya Somerville of Australia in straight games. They won 21-14, 21-8.
The mixed doubles pair of B Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy continued their good run and defeated Presley Smith and Allison Lee of USA 22-20, 21-18 to book their perth in the quarter-finals.
Men's doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun move to the quarters as they defeat the Grimley brothers of Scotland 21-17, 21-19.
A very easy second game for Sindhu who bulldozed Yu-Hsun and won the second game 21-12 to move to the quarter-final of the Madrid Spain Masters.
The Indian shuttler has found her rhythm and she is hitting winners along with inducing errors from her opponents. Sindhu leads 11-6 at the mid-game break.
A complete domination from Sindhu after the break and she went won to six consecutive points forcing Yu-Hsun into errors. A net error by Hsun ends the first game 14-21 in favour of Sindhu.
Despite taking an early lead, Sindhu is guilty of committing errors and as a result she trails 10-11 at the mid-game break.
Sindhu started by taking three consecutive points but committed a couple of errors on the backline to allow Yu-Hsun to comeback and make it 4-4.