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Badminton World Tour Finals Day 3 LIVE - PV Sindhu in action - Scores, Updates, Results, Blog
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Welcome to the live blog of The Bridge from Day 3 of the Badminton World Tour Finals 2021!
Although India had qualified 7 shuttlers for the prestigious season-ending tournament, only 2 of them - PV Sindhu and by a stroke of fluke, Lakshya Sen, have been able to enter the semi-finals of the event. All other shuttlers - Kidambi Srikanth, Ashwini Ponnappa-N Sikki Reddy, and the men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty haven't been able to qualify. While Srikanth did win his opener against Toma Junior Popov, he lost haplessly against Thai youngster Kunlavut Vitidsarn and still has a small window of qualifying for the knockouts. The pair of Ashwini-Sikki could win just one of their three group stage matches while Satwik-Chirag lost their opener and pulled out citing injury trouble before facing off against The Minions.
Today marks the final day of group stage action where the Indian shuttlers will contest for one last mandatory hurray. Sindhu lost her final group match and will face Akane Yamaguchi in the semifinal on Saturday. Lakshya Sen, meanwhile, will be up against Viktor Axelsen in his semifinal.
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Live Updates
- 3 Dec 2021 2:39 AM GMT
Delicate net play from Lee Zii Jia here!
Kidambi Srikanth had a healthy lead in the second game but Lee Zii Jia is impatient to cover it up and his level of badminton is insane, it is 9 ALL!
- 3 Dec 2021 2:34 AM GMT
Into Game 2, Kidambi Srikanth takes an early charge!
Srikanth looks to mend his ways and attacks more readily in Game 2 to take the lead at 4-2!
- 3 Dec 2021 2:30 AM GMT
And once again, it is a mirror score of the first game of Hylo Open - 21-19!
Kidambi Srikanth once again comes dangerously close to getting the opening game but fails to capitalize on the bigger points and ends up losing the first game, 21-19, exactly like he did at the Hylo Open semis, three weeks back, against the Malaysian!
- 3 Dec 2021 2:28 AM GMT
Things look super tight here!
Just like Hylo Open, even this match has grown tight with both players stepping up their game. 19 ALL, let's go, Srikanth!
- 3 Dec 2021 2:24 AM GMT
Deceptive play from Kidambi Srikanth, it is 15 ALL!
Srikanth is forcing out errors from the Malaysian and engaging in net play - it is all locked in at 15 ALL!
- 3 Dec 2021 2:20 AM GMT
Srikanth attacks the backhand of Zii Jia now!
Although Lee is the one who looks better placed in this match so far, Srikanth has killer smashes to answer with too!
The Malaysian has the lead at 12-10.