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Two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu precocious to the semifinals of Malaysia Open Super 1000 badminton tourney successful Kuala Lumpur connected Friday (January 9, 2026) aft her hostile Akane Yamaguchi of Japan retired from their quarterfinal crippled owed to an injury.
Sindhu took the opening crippled 21-11 earlier the three-time satellite champion and 3rd effect Yamaguchi, who was wearing a genu brace, decided to propulsion retired of the match.
The triumph took satellite no.18 Sindhu's head-to-head grounds to 15-12 against the third-ranked Yamaguchi.
Sindhu is competing successful her archetypal tourney aft returning from a prolonged wounded lay-off.
In the semifinals, she volition look the victor of the quarterfinal betwixt 2nd effect Wang Zhiyi of China and Indonesian sixth effect Putri Kusuma Wardani.
Later successful the day, India's apical men's doubles brace of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty volition instrumentality connected Indonesia's Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Shohibul Fikri successful their quarterfinal.
