Singapore Open: PV Sindhu loses to Carolina Marin, Treesa-Gayatri upset World No. 2 Baek-Lee
FirstpostIn the men’s singles, world No. Indian women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand stunned world number two Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee of South Korea to enter the quarter-finals at Singapore Open on Thursday as singles star PV Sindhu suffered another setback. Double Olympic medallist Sindhu blew away 18-15 lead in the decider to go down to familiar rival Carolina Marin in a thrilling 21-13 11-21 20-22 women’s singles last-16 match. In the women’s singles, Sindhu, fresh from her runner-up finish at the Malaysia Masters last week, took the opening game against her Rio Olympics final nemesis, but the Spaniard bounced back to win in a one-hour, eight-minute battle of the BWF World Tour Super 750 meet. Facing each other for the first time in seven months after their heated Denmark Open semifinal clash, the double Olympic medalist Indian dominated the opening game against an error-prone Marin.