India’s double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu sailed into the women’s singles semi-finals at the French Open badminton tournament with a straight-game win over Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan here on Friday.
Sindhu, seeded third, scripted a convincing 21-14, 21-14 win over the eighth seed in 38 minutes to extend her dominating head-to-head record against the Thai to 14-1.
Sindhu, the reigning world champion, had defeated Denmark’s Line Christophersen, ranked 24th in the world, 21-19, 21-9 late on Thursday to enter the quarters.
Among the men, young Lakshya Sen’s fine run ended in the singles quarter final after he lost 17-21, 15-21 to Korea’s Heo Kwanghee in 43 minutes. The men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also couldn’t cross the quarter-final hurdle, losing 21-18, 18-21, 17-21 to fourth-seeded Malaysian duo of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik.