After defeat in quarter-finals, PV Sindhu exits China Open

Fuzhou: On Friday Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu yet again struggled to go past China's He Bingjiao and got exit from the China Open World Tour Super 750. This was Sindhu’s third loss to Bingjiao, who had defeated her at the Indonesia Open and French Open in the month of July and October this year.

Third-seeded Sindhu, who clinched three silver medals this season -- Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and World Championship lost to the eighth-seeded Chinese in the quarterfinal.

It was a very tough competition. Sindhu lost the first game 17-21 but she won the second 21-17 to level the match. Behind 15-17 in the deciding third game, she lost four straight points which ended up on the losing side.