: Sindhu one step away from winning maiden gold, Sen too makes singles final #IndiaNEWS #sports news Birmingham, Aug 7: Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu stayed on course for an elusive gold medal

Sindhu one step away from winning maiden gold, Sen too makes singles final #IndiaNEWS #sports news
Birmingham, Aug 7:
Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu stayed on course for an elusive gold medal while Lakshya Sen regained his rhythm just in time to enter his maiden final at the Commonwealth Games here on Sunday.
Sindhu rode on her superior technical superiority to outwit Singapores Yeo Jia Min 21-19 21-17 in a 49-minute contest to reach her second successive final. The Indian had also beaten her in the team event.
In the following match, world number 10 Sen lost his way after a dominating start against 87-ranked Jia Heng Teh of Singapore. Sen however recovered to complete a 21-10, 18-21, 21-16 win in the mens singles semifinals.
Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty ensured a third gold medal match for India on Monday when they downed Malaysias Chen Peng Soon and Tian Kian Men 21-6, 21-15 to reach the mens doubles final. The world number 7 duo was too good for the Malaysians.
It could have been an all-Indian mens final but an error-prone Kidambi Srikanth squandered a first game advantage to lose to lower-ranked Tze Yong Ng of Malaysia 21-13, 19-21, 21-10. The world number 42 Tze had shocked reigning world champion Yew Kean Loh of Singapore in the quarterfinal.
After winning the opening game, the 13th ranked Srikanth made too many unforced errors to go down in the semifinals. From 4-4 in the decider, errors rained from Srikanths racket, leaving him frustrated on court. (PTI)
With the Malaysian leading 17-9, there was no point of return for the Indian who netted a forehand on match point.
The last editions silver medallist will now fight for the bronze and so will the Indian womens doubles pairing of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand who lost to the seasoned Malaysian combine of Thinnah Muralitharan and Pearly Koon Le Tan in the semifinals in straight games.
In the first mens singles semifinal, Sen was stretched by his Singaporean opponent. He relied on relentless attack to put his Singaporean opponent on the backfoot and he was able to do that in the first game. A couple of forehand smashes on the Singaporeans right helped him take a 1-0 lead in the match.
The momentum shifted towards Jia in the second game as he slowed the pace of the game. A drop shot followed by a backwand winner made it 8-8 before Jia went into the interval with a 9-11 advantage.
A slew of unforced errors from Sen saw Jia take the next five points to make it 9-16. Sen tried to hang in the game, but after the Singaporean took a shoe change break at 15-18, he was able to level the match when Sen hit a forehand long.
Sen built an 11-7 lead in the decider though Jia made the Indian work hard for every point. The Singaporean was also given a last warning for delay in between points.

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