Historical Medals for Sindhu & Tai at Asian Games 2018

Sindhu creates history in badminton by becoming the first Indian to win silver at the Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta by losing to the world no. 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Taiwan with 21-13, 21-16 early today.

In the opener, Tai grabbed the early lead with 5-0, before Sindhu returned an amazing drop shot to save the first point and slowly reducing the deficit with 3-5. Later, Sindhu's long forehand push gave away Tai a point to make 6-3.

From the scoreline of 7-4 to 9-4, the Taiwanese continued her deceptive play and secured points from easy drop shots, which Sindhu could not return and made it to an 11-7 lead.

After the break, Sindhu scored a point from Tai's long shot to win a point at 8-11. The latter had been pushing the former to the corners of the court, after learning the weak area of the Indian with the scoreboard read 13-9 to Tai's favor.

Sindhu's unforced error and long shot push from Tai, costed the Indian to lose the points to the Taiwanese advantage with 10-15; Sindhu enables defensive game while Tai was attacking.

Before Sindhu recovers from the back alley returns, Tai hit the drop shot to give Sindhu a miss with 17-10 to her advantage. Sindhu gained three more points before Tai closed the game 21-13.

After switching the sides, Sindhu grabbed the first point from Tai's wide shot followed by wrong baseline judgements to trail with 1-2.

Sindhu didn't let Tai increase the gap by leveling the score with 4-4. The Indian's sluggish move slowly costed her the match. Tai's too many net-shot returns allowed her to cruise to a huge 18-11 lead.

Later, The Indian changed the gear by grabbing four straight points from Tai's failed dive returns and drop shots to gain points with a 15-18 trail.

While Sindhu owns a slice of history by winning first silver at the Asian Games in badminton, Tai wins first-ever gold for the country.

With this, Tai registered the 10th win over Sindhu from their 13 meetings.