Badminton World Championships: PV Sindhu Exits In Quarterfinals After Losing To Putri Wardani

Last Updated:August 29, 2025, 18:21 IST

Former champion PV Sindhu lost to Putri Wardani in the quarterfinals of the ongoing badminton world championships in Paris.

PV Sindhu won gold in 2019. (AFP Photo)

Star India shuttler PV Sindhu exited the ongoing BWF World Championships 2025 after losing to Indonesian Putri Wardani in the quarterfinals of the women’s singles event.

The 30-year-old Indian lost 14-21, 21-13, 16-21.

The 15th ranked Sindhu lost the opening game 14-21 but made a resounding comeback in the second which she pocketed 21-13 to push for a decider. The third game turned out to be a close affair but the higher ranked Waradni eventually prevailed.

Waradni, who has now secured a medal, will face world no. 5 Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the semifinals slated to be held on Saturday.

The Indonesian had also beaten Sindhu in straight games at the Sudirman Cup earlier this year, though the Indian had prevailed in their Asian Games round-two clash in 2022.

Earlier, Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medalist, got the better of world’s second ranked Wang Zhi Yi of China to qualify for the quarterfinals.

Sindhu, who won the world title in Basel in 2019, took 48 minutes to prevail 21-19 21-15 in the pre-quarterfinals to lead head-to-head record against the Chinese 3-2.

She thus extended her remarkable record against Chinese shuttlers at the Worlds, having previously beaten Wang Yihan (2013), Wang Shixian (2014), Li Xuerui (2015), Sun Yu (2017) and Chen Yufei (2017 and 2019) in earlier editions.

With PTI Inputs

Feroz Khan

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August 29, 2025, 18:21 IST

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