<p class="title">Two-time silver medallist P V Sindhu produced a commanding performance in her opening match at the BWF World Championships here on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu, who had reached the finals of Indonesia Open last month, looked in good touch as she controlled the rallies and outsmarted Chinese Taipei's Pai Yu Po 21-14 21-14 in a 43-minute contest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fifth-seeded Indian, who received a bye in the opening round, is likely to face USA's Beiwen Zhang, seeded ninth, in the pre-quarterfinals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu, an Olympic silver medallist, had lost to Zhang at the India Open finals last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the first game, Sindhu moved ahead from 5-5 to slowly create a gap and entered the interval with an 11-7 lead.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the break, Sindhu continued to surge and grabbed six-game points when Pai made an error in judgement at the backline. The Indian sealed it with a cross-court return.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu zoomed to a 6-1 lead in the second game before Pai started constructing the rallies and narrowed the deficit to 5-7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu's unforced errors also made life easy for the Taiwanese girl, who showed some great skills and managed to enter the interval with an 11-10 lead after Sindhu found the net.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian, however, changed gears after the break, dishing out some good-looking strokes to eventually enter match point at 20-14 when her rival missed a shuttle at the backline.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She sealed the match next with a precise on-the-line return.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among others, the Indian pairing of Jakkapudi Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram went down 8-21 18-21 to eighth seeds Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto of Japan in the women's doubles competition. </p>
<p class="title">Two-time silver medallist P V Sindhu produced a commanding performance in her opening match at the BWF World Championships here on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu, who had reached the finals of Indonesia Open last month, looked in good touch as she controlled the rallies and outsmarted Chinese Taipei's Pai Yu Po 21-14 21-14 in a 43-minute contest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The fifth-seeded Indian, who received a bye in the opening round, is likely to face USA's Beiwen Zhang, seeded ninth, in the pre-quarterfinals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu, an Olympic silver medallist, had lost to Zhang at the India Open finals last year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the first game, Sindhu moved ahead from 5-5 to slowly create a gap and entered the interval with an 11-7 lead.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After the break, Sindhu continued to surge and grabbed six-game points when Pai made an error in judgement at the backline. The Indian sealed it with a cross-court return.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu zoomed to a 6-1 lead in the second game before Pai started constructing the rallies and narrowed the deficit to 5-7.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sindhu's unforced errors also made life easy for the Taiwanese girl, who showed some great skills and managed to enter the interval with an 11-10 lead after Sindhu found the net.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Indian, however, changed gears after the break, dishing out some good-looking strokes to eventually enter match point at 20-14 when her rival missed a shuttle at the backline.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She sealed the match next with a precise on-the-line return.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among others, the Indian pairing of Jakkapudi Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram went down 8-21 18-21 to eighth seeds Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto of Japan in the women's doubles competition. </p>