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Dubai Super Series Final : P V Sindhu advances to knockout stage of Women's Singles<br/>

Ace shuttler P V Sindhu has advanced to the knockout stage of the Women&apos;s Singles at Dubai Super Series Final badminton tournament with two consecutive wins. However, fourth ranked Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of the Men&apos;s Singles by suffering his second consecutive defeat. At Dubai last night, Olympic silver medallist Sindhu took just 36 minutes to outplay Sayaka Sato of Japan 21-13 21-12 to register her second straight win in the one million US Dollar event. The 22-year-old Indian on Thursday had defeated World No. 9 He Bingjiao of China in her campaign opener. In her last and final Group A match today, World No. 3 will face World No. 2 Japanese Akane Yamaguchi who also reached the knockout round with two straight wins. However, it was all over for Srikanth yesterday as he lost to Chinese Taipei&apos;s Chou Tien Chen in straight games to bow out of the tournament. He had earlier, suffered a defeat to World No. 1 and defending champion Viktor Axelsen in his opening match.

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