In a string of women's singles matches on Wednesday, Taiwan's Tai Tzu Ying reminded the world why she's number one when she had France's Qi Xuefei struggling to match up through their 25- minute encounter.
Tai, who beat Qi 21-10, 21-13, had a rough start to the Tokyo Olympics, taking a longer time to fend off two hugely inferior opponents earlier in the Games.The 27-year-old has a history of slipping up at the Olympics, despite performing exceptionally in other competitions. Tai first, who became world number one in 2016, has won the All England Open title three times and was a gold medallist at the 2018 Asian Games.
Tai said that she thinks a potential match with Ratchanok Intanon from Thailand might be"difficult" because their strategies and tactics are similar, and Intanon often hits very fast smashes.Advertisement India's celebrated PV Sindhu - the badminton-crazy country's best chance at a gold this year and a Rio silver medalist - had Hong Kong's Cheung Ngan Yi sliding on her stomach in their first game before beating her 21-9. Cheung gave Sindhu a harder time in the second game - keeping nearly in lock-step with her - and many of the points Sindhu conceded were taken because she landed the shuttcock beyond bounds.
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