PV Sindhu crashes out of French Open after neck-and-neck fight

India's ace shuttler PV Sindhu crashed out of French Open 2019, after losing her quarter-final match against Taiwan's Tai Tzu Ying. Ying beat Sindhu 16-21, 26-24, 17-21 in the match that lasted for an hour and fifteen minutes. Although Sindhu lost the first game of the match, she leveled the match after winning the second game. However, despite fighting tooth and nail Sindhu could not win the third game. 

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Singles knocked out

With Sindhu's exit, India lost a chance of winning the singles title after star shuttlers Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth and Parupalli Kashyap were all knocked out of the competition.

Saina Nehwal lost her quarterfinals match against South Korea's An Se Young 20-22, 21-23 in just 49 minutes, making it the second casualty for an Indian shuttler against the 17-year old player after she knocked out Sindhu in Denmark Open earlier this month. 

In the men's category, Srikanth lost to second seed Chou Tien Che 15-21, 21-7, 21-14 in the first round. Kashyap, on the other hand, had lost to Ng Ka Long Angus 11-21, 9-21. 

However, the men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has been providing some cheers to the Indians as they reached the semifinals of the tournament after defeating the Danish pair of Kim Astrup and Anders Rasmussen. The pair will play fifth seeds Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe in the semifinals on Saturday.

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Sindhu, in August, the first Indian shuttler to win a gold in the BWF World Championships after winning silver and bronze medals on previous occasions. The world no. 6 has previously won the Olympics silver medals and a gold medal at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and a silver at the Asian Games in Jakarta. 

In a recent report by Forbes, Sindhu is the world's 13th highest-paid woman athlete. She was the only female athlete to feature on the list.

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