Macau, Nov 29: Two-time defending champion PV Sindhu completed a hat-trict of women's singles title at the USD 120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold after defeating Japan's Minatsu Mitani in the finals here today.
Sindhu produced a dominating game to notch up a 21-9 21-23 21-14 win against sixth seed Mitani in a women's singles match that lasted an hour and six minutes here.
Sindhu dominated the proceedings right from the start as she rode on the errors of Mitani to reach 11-5 at the break.
Mitani came up with an aggressive rally and sealed it with a down the line smash but she failed to curb her errors and most of her returns went wide and long to allow Sindhu lead 17-6 in a jiffy. Sindhu, on the other hand, was mostly accurate with her smashes and drops as she lead 19-9.
The Indian came up with some acute angled returns to trouble Mitani and reached the game point with a smash. The Japanese then went wide to hand over the first game to Sindhu. After the change of sides, Sindhu once again started on a confident note but she also began missing the lines and Mitani lead 4-2.
The Indian checked her unforced errors and came up with stunning smashes to wrest the lead and move to 7-4. Sindhu made a few wrong judgements at the baseline and also found the net to allow Mitani to surge ahead.
At 10-9, Mitani produced her first winner -- a cross court smash -- which left a stretched Sindhu stranded to go into the break with two-point lead. Mitani started off with a service fault but the Japanese came up with accurate placements which caught Sindhu off guard.
But the Indian kept breathing down her neck and clawed back at 16-16. The duo moved neck-and-neck till 19-19 when Sindhu made an important line judgement to move to match point. But she sent the shuttle long next.
A delicate net point once again gave Sindhu a 21-20 match point but Mitani saved again. Sindhu next hit long to give the game point to Mitani, who grabbed the opportunity after the Indian netted following a long engrossing rally.
PTI