India Open 2018, Second Round: PV Sindhu vs Linda Zetchiri, Live Match Updates

Sindhu wins 21-10, 21-14

Updated: 01 February 2018 19:51 IST - Published: 01 February 2018 14:47 IST

Zetchiri gave some resistance in the second game but Sindhu just raised her level at the right time.

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That was Sindhu's SEVENTH WIN ON THE TROT AT THIS TOURNAMENT!!!

And SINDHU HAS DONE IT!

21-10, 21-14

She is through to the quarter-finals!

With FOUR POINTS ON THE TROT, SINDHU HAS NOW REACHED MATCH POINTS!!

20-14

Sindhu has now gone up to 16-14

And Sindhu is BACK IN FRONT!

14-13

Sindhu is on the comeback trail!

She has increased the pace and is playing more at the net....grabbed a couple of points to trail 9-11

Zetchiri leads 11-7 at the mid-game break.

Zetchiri continues to attack the Sindhu backhand and is getting rewarded.

She leads 10-7

Sindhu miscues a couple of smashes and now trails 6-8

Zetchiri showing a lot more aggression here and she makes it even at 6-6

The champion in Sindhu wakes up and she rushes to the net and grabs two points.

6-4

Some resolute defence and great show at the net by the Bulgarian to wrest away the momentum.

She leads 4-2

SECOND GAME

Sindhu starts the second game pretty much how she finished the first.

2-1

Sindhu wraps up the opening game 21-10.

Too powerful for the Bulgarian!

19-8 to the India No. 1

And now a huge crosscourt smash!

18-6

Zetchiri is a mere spectator!

Sindhu is pretty much unstoppable...playing her brutal attacking game.

17-5

Flurry of smashes from Sindhu already in this game!

13-5 she leads

As Zetchiri sends the shuttle wide, Sindhu goes up to 11-5 at the mid-game interval.

And the defending champion has surged to 10-5

This time Sindhu targets Zetchiri's forehand for her down-the-line smash.

She has already distanced herself from her opponent.

Up 8-5

Once more Sindhu produces a fiery down-the-line winning smash

6-4

And she is up 4-2

Both are moving very well on the court. Sindhu comes up with a down-the-line winner.

3-2

Competitive start to the match.

2-2

And we are quickly 1-1

First point to the Bulgarian

Zetchiri to serve first.

Good evening! The players are on the court now.

Good afternoon and welcome to the Sportskeeda liveblog of the 2018 India Open second round. Top seed PV Sindhu is aiming for a quarter-final berth. A win today will extend the defending champion's winning streak to seven matches. In her quest to do so, she faces the 40th ranked Linda Zetchiri of Bulgaria.

This is the first meeting between the two.

Zetchiri beat India's Vaidehi Choudhari 21-19, 21-15 in the first round while the World No. 3 Sindhu was highly aggressive and sharp in her opener yesterday and thrashed Natalia Koch Rohde 21-10, 21-13.

Sindhu lost in the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Masters last week in straight games and would be highly motivated to win the title at home this week. Considering that and her first round form, she should be expected to breeze through her second round match.