For the first time in her career, the two-time Olympic medallist failed to reach the quarter-finals of the World Championships, a special event for Sindhu where she has medalled five times in seven previous outings. Despite such a stellar record, the 28-yearold was knocked out in Round 2, after receiving a first-round bye, to continue a season of disappointment.
More than the loss, what will pinch Sindhu is the way in which she capitulated, especially in the second game, to hand a 14-21, 14-21 victory to her Japanese rival in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
After comprehensively losing the first game, it appeared like Sindhu was fighting back when she went ahead 9-0, which on regular days is an almost insurmountable lead. Yet she could only win five of the next 26 points to show her old rival the gateway to Round 3.
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