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Press Trust of India : Guangzhou, Sat Aug 10 2013, 13:13 hrs < /a> Playing in her maiden World Championships, the 18-year-old PV Sindhu, seeded 10th, scored an upset 21-18 21-16 win over the local favourite and sixth seed, Shixian Wang, a former World No.1. (PTI) Rising shuttler PV Sindhu on Friday created history by becoming the first Indian woman singles player to ensure a medal at the World Badminton Championships, even as a podium finish remained elusive for Saina Nehwal as she lost for a third time in the quarterfinals. In the process, Sindhu, who faces the promising Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand in the semifinal, made sure she will at least match Prakash Padukone's feat of winning a singles bronze back in 1983. It will also be India's second successive medal at the biennial event after Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa's women's doubles bronze in 2011. Playing in her maiden World Championships, the 18-year-old Sindhu, seeded 10th, scored an upset 21-18 21-16 win over the local favourite and sixth seed, Shixian Wang, a former World No.1. Sindhu's compatriot and London Olympics bronze-medallist Nehwal, however, was erratic and could not hold her nerves as she went down rather tamely 21-23 9-21 in a 40-minute match against Korean Yeon Ju Bae at the Tianhe Indoor Stadium. In the men's singles, Parupalli Kashyap was one point away from a medal against World No. 3 Du Pengyu but lost 21-16 20-22 15-21. World No. 12 Sindhu had defeated Shixian in their only previous meeting. On Friday, Sindhu relied on her smashes besides hitting as many as 19 clear winners. Sindhu dominated right from the start. From 3-3 in the first game, the India pulled away and never conceded. While Sindhu is going through a dream run, having stunned the last edition's champion, Yihan Wang, in the last match, another Indian hope Nehwal stumbled at the last-eight stage once again. Error prone Nehwal Nehwal played an aggressive game and opened up a 11-7 lead at the interval. Her baseline smashes got her a lot of points and she looked in control of the match. ... contd. ALSO READ Track and field-good factor PV Sindhu ensures a medal as Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap crash out of Worlds PV Sindhu turns Worlds upside down PV Sindhu, Parupalli Kashyap record upsets, join Saina Nehwal in quarterfinals Please read our terms of use before posting comments TERMS OF USE: The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s). via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHboCz5nFy3hnSIvjFVEwXr2hpMuQ&url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/future-is-here-and-now/1153554/

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