Malaysia Open | PV Sindhu, K Srikanth advances as Sai Praneeth crashes out

Sindhu then squandered three game points of her own before defending one to bring the score up to 24-24. It was eventually the Indian who came out on top winning the next two points to seal the first game 26-24. The second game was very similar to the first one as both Sindhu and Okori refused to give an inch with the scoreboard showing the score tied at 14-14. However, that is when the Indian decided to shift gears and took seven out of the next eight points to seal the second game by a score of 21-15.

In the men’s single encounter between Kidambi Srikanth and Jan Jorgensen, the Indian, for a change, started off a match well by taking the first five-point of the game. However, the Dane pulled it back by making it a one-point game at 4-5 before leveling the scores at 7-7. But Srikanth took six out of the next seven points to open up a sizable lead at 13-8. Jorgensen, though, was in no mood to go away that easily and fought back to tie the game at 13-all. The duo then split the next 10 points equally before the Indian took control and the game 21-18 with three straight points. The second game turned into more of a display of Srikanth’s superior skills as after leveling at 5-5, he conceded just four more to seal the second game 21-9. The fourth seed of the event will play Tzu Wei Wang in Round 2 tomorrow.