{"id":22693,"date":"2021-07-31T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=131551"},"modified":"2021-07-31T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:17:29","slug":"tokyo-olympics-pv-sindhus-quest-for-gold-ends-as-she-loses-in-the-semi-final-match-against-taiwans-tai-tzu-ying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-pv-sindhus-quest-for-gold-ends-as-she-loses-in-the-semi-final-match-against-taiwans-tai-tzu-ying\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: PV Sindhu\u2019s quest for gold ends as she loses in the semi-final match against Taiwan\u2019s Tai Tzu Ying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massive upset for India as PV missed a bid for the country\u2019s first-ever badminton gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. She lost to Taiwan\u2019s Tzu Ying Tai at the semi-finals battle at the women\u2019s singles badminton event. The Indian lost in straight sets 18-21, 12-21 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PV Sindhu misses out on \ud83e\udd47 and \ud83e\udd48as she comes second best in a semi-final fight against World No. 1 Tzu Ying Tai of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TPE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TPE<\/a> 21-18, 21-12 \ud83d\udc94<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IND<\/a> shuttler will meet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CHN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CHN<\/a>'s He Bing Jiao in a fight for the \ud83e\udd49<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pvsindhu1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pvsindhu1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicKhel\/status\/1421429663067480066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>PV Sindhu had beaten world number five Akane Yamaguchi of the hosting country in 56 minutes and a 54-shot long rally to reach this level at the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwanese entirely dominated against trailing Sindhu in the second set following her first set win which was hard-fought.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning world champion Sindhu had aimed to conserve India\u2019s first badminton gold medal will now play in the chase for a bronze medal and will be in action on Sunday against He Bing Jiao of China in the third-place play-off at Musashino Forest Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Sindhu has won a silver medal at the Rio Games. It was her 14th failure to the second-seeded Tai Tzu-Ying in their nineteen gatherings. The 26-year-old Indian had also got defeated by her in the previous three meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a player couldn\u2019t come into the rhythm this all happens. Yesterday, she was in a good rhythm and was able to come back and catch Akane Yamaguchi. Today, Tai Tzu-Ying has not given her any chance at all,\u201d said PV Sindhu\u2019s father PV Ramana to ANI in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When a player couldn't come into the rhythm this all happens. Yesterday, she was in good rhythm & was able to come back & catch Akane Yamaguchi. Today, Tai Tzu-Ying has not given her any chance at all: PV Ramana, PV Sindhu's father, in Hyderabad <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SUP1NLvT9O\">pic.twitter.com\/SUP1NLvT9O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1421432698342576133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PV Sindhu loses in women\u2019s singles semi-finals game against Taiwan\u2019s Tai Tzu Ying and her journey for the gold medal ends. She will play for a bronze medal on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1120,2249,1337,1353,1555,2228,2473,2125,638],"class_list":["post-22693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-badminton","tag-badminton-associations-of-india","tag-pv-sindhu","tag-tai-tzu-ying","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-2020","tag-tokyo-2021-olympics","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}