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World Tour Finals: Kidambi Srikanth Makes Winning Start, Ashwini-Sikki Pair Loses

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India’s ace shuttlers PV Sindhu and Srikanth Kidambi started off with straight-games in their group stage matches at the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals in Bali on Wednesday.

Former world No 1 secured a straight-game win over France’s Toma Junior Popov while reigning world champion Sindhu also followed that up with a solid win, and the exact same scoreline of 21-14 21-16, against Denmark’s Line Christophersen.

Earlier in the day, the women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy lost 14-21 18-21 to second-seeded Japanese combination of Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida in their opening group B match. It was a hard-fought battle with the Indians creating opportunities in the second game against a pair that has been in tremendous form in Bali but paid for a few costly unforced errors in their bid to force a decider.