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Carolina Marin routs PV Sindhu in Swiss Open final
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Carolina Marin beat PV Sindhu 21-12, 21-5 in the final of the 2021 Yonex Swiss Open in Basel on Sunday. The World No. 3 from Spain, who has had a sensational start to the year, winning the two Thailand Opens and reaching the final of the World Tour Finals, made short work of the match against the World No. 7 Indian.
The first game started with Marin winning the first point after having started in typical aggressive fashion. But what followed was an exciting passage of play where serve was exchanged at every point until Sindhu won three straight to make it 6-4. This preceded a sequence of five consecutive points won by Marin, with the Spaniard going into the break 11-8 up.
PV Sindhu gets past feisty Blichfeldt to make Swiss Open final
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Shaking off a wobbly start, PV Sindhu scythed past rising Dane Mia Blichfeldt to make her first final since the 2019 World Championships, with a 22-20, 21-10 win at the Swiss Open on Saturday. She will face an old foe, Olympic champion Carolina Marin, in the final. The Jakobshalle arena in Basel where the Super 300 event is being hosted incidentally was also the setting for the Indian s world title conquest.
Blichfeldt showed some strong resistance early in the first game, attacking Sindhu s front court and dictating rallies. There was sufficient reason for caution for Sindhu. In the first Thailand event this year following the pandemic pause, the 23-year old had wrung Sindhu dry in three games. She d also run amok over Saina Nehwal s plans to make a record ninth World Championships quarterfinal appearance in 2019. From three points adrift in the mid-game interval, the reigning European Games champio