Singapore Open: Treesa-Gayatri pair stuns world No. 2, PV Sindhu loses

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand stunned the world No. 2 pair of Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee of South Korea, but PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy lost their second-round matches in the Singapore BWF Super-750 tournament on Thursday.
Treesa-Gayatri won 21-9, 14-21, 21-15. It was their first victory against reigning Asian and All England champions and they are the only Indians still in fray now.
World No.10 HS Prannoy lost to world No. 11 Kenta Nishimoto of Japan 13-21, 21-14, 15-21.
Sindhu squandered big leads (8-3, 15-10, 18- 15) in the third game to lose 21-13, 11-21, 20-22 to Carolina Marin of Spain. Despite her loss, Sindhu will take a lot of positives from the match. Three days after her loss to Wang Zhi Yi in the final of Malaysia Open, Sindhu put up a gallant fight against the former world champion.
“It was a good match. There was a bit of disadvantage from the side I played. After 20-20, it can be anybody's game. It is time to prepare for the next tournament as we are coming closer to Olympics,” Sindhu said.
Treesa-Gayatri produced the upset of the day when they knocked out the South Korean combine. They outclassed their rivals in the first game before losing the second. In the decider, the Indians broke free from 10-9 to race ahead to 16-9.
“It was a great match, I didn't expect to win against them. The last two times we played against them we lost, but this time we were pretty good," Gayatri said.
Treesa said, “We did not expect this result. We did not want to make any mistakes. We attacked well and our defence was good. In fact, everything came out well today.”
The duo, who did not qualify for Olympics, will face South Korean sixth seeds Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong in the quarterfinals on Friday. The Koreans have a 1-0 winloss record against Treesa-Gayatri.