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With her loss, the Indian campaign comes to an end at the French Open Superseries as earlier HS Prannoy too bowed out, 19-21, 16-21 to the fifth seed Chou Tien Chen.
And it's all over for the Indian! Sindhu loses 20-22, 17-21
Sindhu could not prevent Bingjiao from getting to match point, who is now ahead 20-17
And she has made it a two-point deficit with 17-19.
Sindhu now trails 16-19. It's now or never for her!
The rallies are getting longer now and Sindhu's defense is getting tested here. Bingjiao stops the Sindhu comeback to surge to 19-15.
And she takes another to make it 15-18
How long can she continue?
The Indian is trying to make her comeback here and has closed in to 14-18
The Indian is finding no way to stop the Chinese march at all. Sindhu now trails 11-18
It's 17-9 now in favour of the Chinese!
Bingjiao still has a six-point advantage, 15-9.
The Chinese has extended the lead to 14-8 now.
After the break, the Chinese still has the lead, 12-8.
It is difficult for Sindhu but not impossible! She has defeated many big names in the past including Bingjiao herself the very last week. The Indian needs to find motivation from that victory.
Sindhu took one point but could not stop the Chinese from taking an 11-6 lead at the interval.
This is slipping away fast from the Indian now, who trails 5-10.
But the Chinese once more has the advantage and gets to 8-5.
Bingjiao is trying to inch ahead and is even taking a slender lead but each time, Sindhu is successful in getting the momentum back. Currently, the Indian is 5-6.
Bingjiao takes a 4-2 lead but Sindhu cuts it down to 3-4
The Olympic medallist will definitely try to give her best here and hope to take this to a decider.
The second game has started and the two are all level at 2-2 now.
What do you think, guys? Can Sindhu make a comeback?
And Bingjiao takes it 22-20
Now Bingjiao has a game point of her own at 21-20
And the Chinese saves the second one too. it is 20-20
Bingjiao saves one to make it 19-20
She has now reached game point too, 20-18.
Sindhu has asserted herself once again and has soared to 19-17. Can she close out the game?
The Indian needs to be careful here as the Chinese is inching closer and is currently 16-17.
But once more Sindhu excels under pressure and stalls her opponent's momentum. A fine display of aggression combined with some good defense from the Indian which sees her rise to 15-12. She extends it to 16-14 now.
The Chinese has closed the gap between them after the break and trails the Indian by just one point now, 12-13.
A calm head has assured Sindhu of taking an 11-8 lead at the mid-game interval.
Sindhu has now jumped to a two-point lead over her Chinese rival. She is ahead 9-7.
The early stages continue to be hard-fought and the lead keeps on rotating between the two. Now they are locked at 7-7.
But Bingjiao is proving to be dangerous. She takes the next two points to surge to 5-4.
The match has started and Sindhu has taken a mini lead of 4-3.
Good evening and welcome to the liveblog of PV Sindhu's second round match at the French Open Superseries. The World No. 10 faces the dangerous He Bingjiao, who is just one place below her in the current BWF rankings. The Chinese has troubled her all year but Sindhu did win their most recent showdown that happened at the Denmark Open Superseries Premier last week.
That should give the Rio Olympic silver medallist some confidence. Add to that, she should be absolutely rested with around 33 hours between her two matches.
Sindhu put up an impressive display in her first round match and did well to stave off a late comeback from Yip Pui Yin and win it, 21-9, 29-27. She would definitely hope to repeat that performance.
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