PV Sindhu outclasses Carolina Marin to clinch maiden India Open title

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New Delhi, April 2: India's star shuttler PV Sindhu defeated Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain in straight games to lift her maiden India Open Super Series title here on Sunday (April 2).

Playing in front of a hysteric home crowd at Siri Fort Auditorium in the national capital, Sindhu outclassed Marin 21-19, 21-16 to clinch the gold medal.

The world number 5 player took the first game 21-19 and set the pace of the match. The Hyderabadi shuttler never looked back ever since as she claimed the second game 21-16 against the World No. 3.

However, Marin showed her brilliance against the Indian but the home advantage, perhaps, worked into Sindhu's favour for she kept dominating the match from the very first minute.

Earlier on Saturday (April 1) Sindhu, stormed into the final after beating South Korea's Sung Ji Hyun 21-18, 14-21, 21-14 in the semifinal clash.

Sindhu started the match high on confidence as she had outclassed compatriot Saina Nehwal in the quarterfinal.

Earlier in the day, Viktor Axelsen of Denmark steamrolled Chinese Taipei's Tien Chen Chou in straight games to emerge men's singles champion at the tournament.

Third seed Axelsen crushed Chou 21-13 21-10 in just 36 minutes to claim his maiden India Open title at the Siri Fort Sports Complex.

Coming into the match, the Dane was regarded an outright favourite and he was the superior of the two shuttlers on the court as he controlled the proceedings from the word go.

In the women's doubles final, seventh seeded Japanese duo of Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto stunned third seeded compatriots Naoko Fukuman and Kurumi Yonao 16-21 21-19 21-10 to lift the title.

Later, top seeds Siwei Zheng and Qingchen Chen of China defeated countrymate and second seeds Lu Kai and Huang Yaqiong 22-24 21-14 21-17 to claim the mixed doubles title.

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