PV Sindhu loses close final, settles for silver in World Badminton Championships
PV Sindhu will be looking to create history when she faces Nozomi Okuhara in the women’s singles final of the World Badminton Championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow on Sunday. This is the maiden Worlds summit clash for both the girls, who won medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. While Sindhu clinched silver last year after beating Nozomi in the semi-finals, the Japanese had to settle for the bronze. Get live score and live updates of PV Sindhu vs Nozomi Okuhara, World Badminton Championships, here.
18:46 hrs IST: The last time Sindhu lost to Nozomi was in February 2016
18:42 hrs IST: Meanwhile, the women’s doubles final has entered the deciding game
18:35 hrs IST: Eventually Sindhu went on to win the silver and Nozomi bronze at Rio 2016
18:29 hrs IST: Interestingly, the two also met in the semi-finals of the Olympics last year where Sindhu defeated Nozomi in straight games
18:20 hrs IST: The only time the two players faced each other in 2017 was at the Singapore Open in April where Sindhu won in three games
18:15 hrs IST: But Sindhu won the last two times they played against each other
18:04 hrs IST: Sindhu has a 3-3 record against the Japanese player
17:52 hrs IST: This will be the seventh meeting between Sindhu and Nozomi
17:43 hrs IST: The women’s doubles final begins!
17:41 hrs IST: Before that it will be women’s doubles final between Chinese fourth seeds Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan against Japanese ninth seeds Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota
17:38 hrs IST: The big match is the PV Sindhu vs Nozomi Okuhara women’s singles final which is the second match of the day
17:35 hrs IST: Hello and welcome to the live blog of the World Badminton Championships
The two girls have played each other six times with both winning three matches apiece. But significantly, Sindhu has won the last two meetings between them.
Sindhu and Nozomi have only played one match in 2017 — at the Singapore Open in April — which Sindhu won 10-21, 21-15, 22-20. It remains to be seen what happens today.
