PBL 2020: On home court, Hyderabad Hunters' PV Sindhu's star shines brightly even in defeat to Tai Tzu Ying
FirstpostOn Friday, the PBL may have seen its biggest crowd of the season, as spectators were lured by the women’s singles match between Sindhu and Tai Tzu Hyderabad: An Innova painted in the garish yellow of Bengaluru Raptors stood in the parking lot of the GMC Balayogi Indoor Stadium. With foreign faces such as Spain’s Carolina Marin, also Indian players Kidambi Srikanth and Saina Nehwal choosing to miss the league in an Olympic year, the onus has been on World No 6 Sindhu and World No 2 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei to work as crowd-pullers. On Friday, the PBL may have seen its biggest crowd of the season, as spectators were lured by the women’s singles match between Sindhu and Tai Tzu. The Hyderabad Hunters men’s doubles pair of Vladimir Ivanov and Ben Lane lost the first match of the tie, in three games, to the Bengaluru pair of Chan Peng Soon and Rian Agung Saputro.