P V Sindhu tames China’s Bing Jiao to secure her second Olympic medal

Star Indian shuttler P V Sindhu on Sunday grew to become only the 2nd Indian to win two Olympic medals, securing a bronze following a straight-recreation win about earth no.9 He Bing Jiao of China in the women’s singles 3rd-location engage in-off right here.

Sindhu, who has returned with medals from just about every of the large-ticket activities these as Commonwealth Video games, Asian Video games and BWF World Tour Finals in the final 5 years, outwitted eighth seed Bing Jiao 21-thirteen 21-fifteen to add a bronze to her silver that she had secured at the 2016 Rio Video games.

Wrestler Sushil Kumar is the initially and only other Indian to win two Olympic medals, pursuing up his bronze at 2008 Beijing with a silver at the London edition.

Up against an opponent, who has beaten her 9 situations so considerably in the final fifteen meetings, Sindhu confirmed wonderful resolve to outplay Bing Jiao with her aggression to scoop India’s 3rd medal at Tokyo.

Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has already long gone back following amassing a silver, whilst boxer Lovlina Borgohain is assured of at the very least bronze so considerably.

With this win, the sixth seeded Sindhu also built up for the straight-recreation decline to earth no.one Tai Tzu Ying in the semifinals on Saturday.

She had beaten Japanese earth no 5 Akane Yamaguchi in the quarterfinals.

Before, men’s singles participant B Sai Praneeth and the men’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy had unsuccessful to qualify for the knockout stage.

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