Bangkok
Olympic silver medallist P. V. Sindhu progressed to the final of the $350,000 Thailand Open World Tour Super 500 tournament in Bangkok with a 23-21, 16-21, 21-9 win over Indonesia’s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung on Saturday.
After a close first game, Tunjung fought back to take the second. But Sindhu surged ahead early in the third to take a 5-1 lead. The Indonesian again fought back to 7-8, but the second seed from there on ran away with the game, winning 21-9.
Sindhu will face Nozomi Okuhara, the reigning world champion from Japan, in the final on Sunday. Okuhara advanced to the summit clash with a 21-17, 21-10 victory over Beiwen Zhang of the US.
Sindhu and Okuhara have played each other 10 times before, winning five matches each. They most recently met in the quarterfinals of the All England Open, where Sindhu won 20-22, 21-18, 21-18.
