PV Sindhu vs Beiwen Zhang, Indonesia Open SS 2017

That ends our liveblog of the Indonesia Open for today. Do join us tomorrow for the quarter-final blog. Till then stay tuned to Sportskeeda for more updates on Indian badminton.

Let us hope the men will keep the Indian Tricolour flying high at the Indonesia Open.

While the men have soared high, it has been an extremely disappointing day for the Indian women with both Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu making exit on the same day.

Final score: 15-21, 21-12, 21-18 win for Zhang

And Zhang COMPLETES THE UPSET

20-18 it is as Sindhu saves a match point

Zhang has match points at 20-17

Will the Indian be able to show some magic here?

And once more, it is the American who has the advantage...19-17

But Sindhu, like the champion she is, erases that lead to make it 17-17

Zhang maintains her 2-point lead over the Rio Olympic medallist...17-15

Can Sindhu still come back?

And Zhang takes a huge step here....she is up 16-14

And it is 13-13

Can Sindhu use all her experience and her guts to pull through this one?

This will be a big test of nerves for both

The match continues in the same vein.....it is 12-12

At half-time, Sindhu manages to have an 11-10 lead.

It is 9-9

And Zhang makes it 7-7

It continues to be a hard-fought game....hardly anything to separate the two...Sindhu is ahead at 7-6

It's a closely-fought battle now....Sindhu is barely ahead at 5-4

And the fourth seed stretches her lead to 4-2

THIRD GAME

Sindhu makes a fast start here to go up to 2-1

What a performance that was! Complete domination!

And Zhang takes the second game, 21-12

After Zhang got to 20-11, Sindhu finally gets a point of her own.

This is slipping away from Sindhu's grip now....the American is up 19-11

Zhang is once again pushing ahead...up 16-11

Sindhu still trails by 3 points at 11-14

Zhang stops the Sindhu march here....makes it 12-9

9-11

FOUR POINTS ON THE TROT....8-11

Another point for the Indian to make it 7-11

And she started working on the turnaround.....6-11 now

Sindhu needs to cut down on her errors and bring out her attacking game if she wants this to end in straight games.

And she makes it 11-4 at the mid-game interval

It is Zhang who is in control of this now....up 10-4

Sindhu managed to snatch a couple of points before Zhang extended her lead to 6-3

But it is Zhang who has quickly built up a huge 5-1 lead.

SECOND GAME

It's all even in the initial stages...1-1

And the first game is in Sindhu's pocket...21-15

FIVE GAME POINTS FOR THE INDIAN!!!

It is 19-14 for Sindhu now as she staves off Zhang's late comeback.

Is it too late for the American?

But the American has found some fighting spirit here and takes 3 points in a row to make it 13-16

16-10 for the Indian now...she is slowly increasing the gap between herself and Zhang

There's no stopping Sindhu!!! She has raced ahead to 13-9

At half-time, the fourth seed jumps to an 11-8 lead.

And Sindhu takes FOUR POINTS on the trot to go ahead to 9-7

PV Sindhu vs Beiwen Zhang, Indonesia Open SS 2017 - As it happened