Wuhan: Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu wasted a game advantage as she lost to HE Bingjiao of China in a very tight quarter-final contest to crash out of the badminton Asia Championships in wuhan on Fri.
Sindhu, seeded fourth within the tournament, lost 21-15, 14-21, 22-24 against her eighth-seeded Chinese opponent within the match contest that lasted one hour and seventeen minutes.
With her loss, India's campaign within the continental tournament came to associate finish.
In the initial game, it had been Sindhu all the method as she zoomed ahead from 4-4, giving her Chinese opponent no probability to catch her up.
The situation suddenly modified within the second game as Sindhu trailed during. In no time, Bingjiao went ahead and led 13-7. The Indian won a number of points later however it had been not enough as Bingjiao pocketed the second game simply.
The deciding game was a tense affair with Sindhu catching up along with her Chinese rival when trailing ab initio. each the players were levelled at 16-16 then 19-19. The Chinese player reached the gamepoint however Sindhu created it level at 20-20 then once more at 21-21.
Sidhu then got the advantage at 22-21 however didn't clinch the match as her Chinese opponent created it 22-22 before reeling off 2 consecutive points to win the match.