Good evening and welcome to the much-awaited semi final clash between Sindhu and Yamaguchi of Japan! Having looked tired and slow-footed at the Thailand Open, which led to her straight-games capitulation to Nozomi Okuhara in the final, India's PV Sindhu has rebounded and how! The 23-year-old once again looks a bundle of energy and is absolutely raring to go. The rejuvenated Sindhu showed that in ample amounts in her straight-games win over Okuhara in the quarter-finals at the World Badminton Championships in Nanjing, China on Friday. Even when the Japanese built a big 9-3 lead in the second game and was clearly attempting a comeback by prolonging the rallies, Sindhu did not give up. She worked her way back into the game and even emerged as the winner in so many of the rallies, validating her improved defence and her tactical awareness. On her way to the semi-finals, which also assured her of her fourth medal from this prestigious tournament, the Rio Olympic silver medallist has not dropped a game. Along with Carolina Marin, she is one of the two semi-finalists to have recorded straight-games wins in all three of their matches so far. The other two -- He Bingjiao and Akane Yamaguchi -- have conceded one game each en route to the last-four. Sindhu would be needing that extra reserve of energy in tackling the feisty Japanese in the semi-finals. The two have split their two meetings this year. In the first one, Sindhu was all over Yamaguchi as the Japanese got no chance to settle into the match at the Badminton Asia Championships. In the second, Yamaguchi avenged that loss after coming back from a game down.
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