{"id":366,"date":"2021-12-04T23:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=170609"},"modified":"2021-12-04T23:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:11:51","slug":"pv-sindhu-beats-japans-yamaguchi-enters-final-of-bwf-world-tour-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/pv-sindhu-beats-japans-yamaguchi-enters-final-of-bwf-world-tour-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"PV Sindhu beats Japan\u2019s Yamaguchi, enters final of BWF World Tour finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Indian badminton sensation PV Sindhu has reached the finals of the BWF World Tour finals after a tough win over Japan\u2019s Akane Yamaguchi on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe two-time Olympic medalist won the fixture by 21-15, 15-21, 21-19 in an absolute thriller.<br \/>\nSindhu had previously won the title in 2018 and it will be her 3rd final appearance in the season-ending tournament as she is the only Indian to achieve the record.<br \/>\nThe 26-year old had a 12-8 win-loss record against Yamaguchi before meeting her in the semifinals which created a pressurized hype for the Indian.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SINDHU ENTERS THE FINAL\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>After an absolutely gritty, courageous & nail-biting performance by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pvsindhu1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pvsindhu1<\/a> our \ud83c\udff8 ace storms into the Final of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldTourFinals2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldTourFinals2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Sindhu def. \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5's Akane Yamaguchi 2\ufe0f\u20e3-1\ufe0f\u20e3 ( 21-15 15-21, 21-19) and will next play \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7's An Seyoung for the Title<br \/>1\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j0rDcbWIS5\">pic.twitter.com\/j0rDcbWIS5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAI Media (@Media_SAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI\/status\/1467082110880006146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sindhu will face Seyoung in the finals who had just won Indonesia Masters and Indonesia open and had already beaten Sindhu in the quarterfinals of the Denmark Open nearly a couple of months ago.<br \/>\nSindhu, in the semi-final, was trailing by 0-4 in the first game but made a brilliant comeback to clinch the set in the end. Yamaguchi then thoroughly turned the 2nd game towards herself after a hard tussle.<br \/>\nThe deciding game resulted to be a comfortable one for Sindhu at a moment when she got 7 straight points in between, the Japanese tried her best to make a comeback and the game went down to the wire in the end at 19-19 as the Indian won two straight consecutive points to wrap up the game.<br \/>\nPV Sindhu and Korea\u2019s An Seyoung will face each other in the finals of the BWF World Tour competition on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PV Sindhu has progressed  to the final of BWF World Tour finals after beating Japan\u2019s Akane Yamaguchi by 21-15, 15-21, 21-19 and will face Korea\u2019s Seyoung in the title decider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1120,1570,1620,2017,1730,2669,1337,2403,2311],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-badminton","tag-badminton-world-federation","tag-bwfworldtour","tag-department-of-sports-and-youth-services","tag-finals","tag-indian-sports","tag-pv-sindhu","tag-semi-finals","tag-sports-authority-of-india"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}