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#2 Sindhu’s unbeaten record against Chinese at World Championships
Besides her indomitable spirit, what stood out for Sindhu in all these editions of World Championship is her unbeaten record against the Chinese. It seems Sindhu is all charged up when she faces a Chinese on the opposite side of the net and her all-win record, six out of six times, clearly speaks of her fearlessness against them.
In the 2013 World Championship, an 18-year-old Sindhu shocked the second seed Wang Yihan in the third round and then outplayed the seventh seed Wang Shixian in the quarter-finals to book her maiden Worlds medal. Interestingly, the Indian ousted both the former World No. 1s in straight games in the 2013 edition.
If anyone thought these were one-off results, Sindhu returned to end Shixian’s campaign yet again in 2014.
In 2015, she returned empty-handed from the competition but only after ousting reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui, thus maintaining her record. And this year, Sindhu showed even more determination and confidence in her thrashing of fifth seed Sun Yu 21-14, 21-9 in the quarter-finals and the ninth-seeded Chen Yufei 21-13, 21-10 in the semi-finals.
