In Badminton, Olympic Silver Medallist PV Sindhu will take on top seed and Rio Olympics gold medallist Carolina Marin in the summit clash of the Women’s Singles final at the Swiss Open tournament in Basel today. It will the first meeting between the two in over two years. Sindhu defeated fourth seed Mia Blichfeldt of Denmark 22-20, 21-10 in the semi-final last evening.
In Men’s Singles semi-final, former Champion Kidambi Srikanth lost to top seed Viktor Axelsen of Denmark 13-21, 19-21.
In Men’s Doubles, World number 10 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also bowed out after losing 10-21, 17-21 to sixth-seeded Danish pair of Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in the semi-finals.