PV Sindhu shocked the second seed Wang Zee Yi in the 16th of the BWF World Championships, with an old show of winning 21-19, 21-15 in 48 minutes, with an old show of power, rich and movement, because he highlighted his huge wings and employed a top opponent in a top contradiction for him.

He is now a win from a sixth worlds medal, his successes are coming to his teenage, and now in his 30s. After maintaining his 100 percent track record against Chinese opponents in the World Championship, she will now be ready for a Friday match against Indonesia’s daughter Kusuma Wardani.

Before the start of the 2025 World Championship, a look for Indus’s podium would have stopped you in 16 matches. Wang has been one of the best female single players this year, who reached the field with 40 wins in 2025 and only 9 defeats.

Sindhu was a large -scale Dalit in this game. Even though his head-to-head is also 2-2, Sindhu has fought with a win-loss record of 9–12 this year. In the year she turned 30, she came out of the first round and saw a shadow of her previous formidable self, losing the youth. At the same place last year at the Paris Olympics, she lost on the same platform for another Chinese player, Bingjio.

But it is Indus in the World Championship. Where he declared himself at the age of 18. When she became India’s first world champion after two final losses. Where he has 5 medals – one Indian record. And where, he has this one, incredible record that shows why he is a Bonafide legend: he has never lost an entire match against Chinese opponents in the World Championship.

She was still not going. On paper, the 15th seed is a disturbed beating with another seed. Win a straight game against the top, in-form Chinese player is commendable. But this is a special effort with all the command of a champion with one of the best players of the season to come in the second half of 2025 for this.

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Earlier consider Sindhu’s first two matches: In the first match against Bulgarian teenager Kalyona Nabbantova, Sindhu was down at 7–12 and then faced two game points in the first game before winning 23-21, 21-6. He says more about the slow start of the scorline Indus and reduces the speed greater than the Bulgarian experience.

In the second round against WR40 Malaysian Latshana Karupathavan, she was 12–18 in the first game before winning 21–19, 21-15. A solid mental and physical effort was required to remove that deficit and win directly in sports. But Sindhu, who came to court in the third round against the world, felt like a separate player.

She was on the attack from the beginning, with a faster smash and clever mixture of the close-in winners with an increase of 11–6 at mid-back intervals. Wang fought back at 19–19 and level. Now it became a test of veins, as much as the skill, which Sindhu has recently struggled a lot. But this once, she came to the top with a show forced Wang under pressure.

In the second game, Sindhu maintained pressure, once again took a lead of 11–6. Wang once again attracted the level and pushed the Indus, with a stunning 57-shot rally in an error from the Indian. Such long rallies have once again been a disadvantage for the Indus, but once she wanted to make it relative easily with five match points.

It was a separate Indus that we have seen in major events in 2025 and it has once again raised expectations from Indian badminton superstars.

Sindhu will play Wardani in the quarter -finals next time, who defeated Japanese Rising Star Tomoka Miazaki in 16 era. Indians and Indonesians are tied 2–2 to their heads with their heads, in which the warden won its latest meeting earlier this year.

After playing the back-to-back day, the key will now be relaxed and recovery. If Sindhu’s shots fire as they do today, there is no reason to believe in another world championship medal. As we wrote on these pages earlier, the sixth medal at the age of 30? What a story can be!

Charaith Asanka will lead Sri Lanka in Asia Cup 2025 (Photo by Robert Sianflon/Getty Image)

Sri Lanka on Thursday confirmed its 16-Khiladi squad for the T20 Asia Cup 2025, which was scheduled to begin on 9 September in the United Arab Emirates. The side will be headed with left -handed batsman Charith Asanka, with a depth in the batting unit with experienced names such as Kusal Mendis, Kusal Perera and Dasun Shanaka. Acting Vanindu Hasranga The young pacer is also included with Matheesha Pathirana. Hasranga’s fitness is talking one thing in recent weeks. The 28 -year -old injured his hamstring during a T20 Eye against Bangladesh in July and was particularly absent from Sri Lankan squads for both Odis and T20I against Zimbabwe. His selection for the Asia Cup suggests that the management is confident of his recovery before the tournament.Sri Lanka’s first game of Asia Cup is against Bangladesh on 13 September. The squad also features spinners Mahesh Thekshana and Dunith Vellage, who were trusted during the absence of Hasranga, while Chamika Karunratne and Dushmanatha Chamera add pace-bouncing experience. Sri Lanka Squad for Asia Cup 2025: Charitha Asanka (C), Patam Nisanka, Kusal Mendis, Kusal Perera, Nuvanidu Fernando, Kamindu Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Dasun Shanka, Vanindu Hasranfa, Chamnaz, Chamitan, Chaminaj Chanera, Binura Fernando, Nawan Thaushra, Matheshra, Pathirana.

Sri Lanka enters the Asia Cup, who lost to India in the final of the previous edition. With their mixture of experienced campaigners and aiming to take young talent to the continental stage once again, they will see to go deep into the tournament once again.