India’s badminton star PV Sindhu was forced to play three matches within 18 hours at this year’s Asian Games in Japan – something that she says robbed her of a chance to recover well and compete at her best.
Sindhu played twice on Saturday last week, with her third-round match finishing after midnight, before returning to court on Sunday afternoon for her quarter-final against Chen Yufei, which she lost. When the two-time Olympic medallist was asked if she had ever played two matches in a day in any major championship before, she said: “The scheduling was not really well organised, is what I feel.”
