Women's Singles _ Zhang Yi Man (CHN) vs. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (IND) _ Badminton 2025 Highlight

...twice Olympic medalist Usala Venkata Sindhu. She's still getting this first round match underway from China. She's got a yellow Labrador. I've got a chocolate Labrador. So she's a member of the badminton lovers Labrador. Yellow Lab is called Rio. Who is it hitting? She's also a member, right? He's a member of the club. He's got a fox, Usala Venkata Sindhu. I think it's a fairly important match. Oh, it's a women's cup. So she played four weeks after the women's cup, had a couple of weeks off, and then played at the Canadian Open, where she was concerned that she was trying to play a little too much. I totally agree. I think she scored points from that tournament. But you've got to find the right mix. So everybody's eager to play. And there's also perhaps this psychologically... Yeah, and to you who went on to reach the final, that psychologically she'd taken a bit of a hit from that loss. Yeah. It's nice for us, the fans, to know what athletes are thinking, but of course opponents also know. Opponents also know, but it's... I sometimes feel, but of course there's upsides and downsides to it because you become vulnerable to trolls on the Internet. It's a tough program because she's playing four tournaments in a row again, Canada, US, Korea, and now here. And also scheduled to play in Australia. Working relationship going with the coach in the first session. But that's exactly the thing. You've got to find each other in terms of coaching, in terms of the codes that you're using, how you're in the coaching and so on. And it just takes time. ...should have elected for a smash instead of anything she was. Kutra Stadium. She's lost in Germany over Lollapalooza. She's super fast on her feet, so it's a challenge. ...in that her retrieving capabilities, she used to chase down that shuttle, and now she's struggling to change direction. Perhaps not even in practice, she had been able to... It's going wide. ...this drift along, and perhaps a slight sideways drift, but then we saw one rally where it looked totally... That was a beautiful... One has to say it was impressive from Tony Mann, in that opening game, tactically, I thought she played extremely well. But here's a fun fact for you to see. No player from India has ever won a title in... Four percent of all women's singles titles have gone to a Chinese player. The Chinese player won the first in 2016, indeed it was, yes. Yeah, it's... Which means it can't be that much. ...difficult to... As I usually am, even though I'm on soft-scoping as well, so it's difficult to catch a lot of... You can attack... ...to play the fast side first, but... Don't worry about the physicality. I mean, obviously that comes into the equation of what she should do tactically, because if she's struggling to move... Yeah, you've got a crossroad where you have to decide whether you want to stop playing tournaments or you want to say, hey, I need to do something to really... ...get the right motivation and the right preparation before going out to play. Because there's something that needs to be a lot, lot better. You want to win. And you convince yourself that I've done it before. And that's the thing. If we look back, since Sindhu came back from the unfortunate stress fracture, she's beaten two players. So that you play at what championships that you consider... Yeah. That's going wide. That's better. Former world champion Prusana Venkata Sindhu. Well, for Sindhu, it's going to start happening very quickly. She's working hard. She's desperately trying to make it happen. A little bit more. As far as Chinese players are concerned, she's a wonderful player. There's no doubt about it. Oh, that's up. And it is Changi Mata.