Sindu's gallant fight ended in agony as she suffered a second successive loss to World No . 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei at the summit clash of the $ 400,000 Hong Kong Super Series here on Sunday. Playing her fifthe straight tournament , Sindhu , who had a 3-7 head - to -head record against Tai before the match , never lacked in fitness and fought throughout the match before going down 18-21 , 18-21 to the defending champion in a 44 - minute women's singles final. This is Sindhu's second loss in the four final that she reached this season . she had lost to Japan's Nozomi Okuhara at the World Championship final , while clinched two titles at India and Korea this year.In the opening game which lasted 21 minutes , Tai moved to a 3-0 lead early on before Sindhu made a good judgement at the baseline to log the first pints. However, Tai unleashed her wide repertoire of strokes and varied the pace well to lead 7-2. Sindhu then started to dominate the rallies by using her deep clears and drew the Taiwanese close to the net . She used her reach to catch the shuttle early and placed it in difficult position to narrow the deficit to 6-7. A deceptive net return gave Tai a point the Taiwanese then produced a smash on the deep back hand corner of Sindhu and moved to 10-7 , Sindhu unleashed a body smash to perfection before Tai's flat straight return bamboozled the Indians.
A the break , Tai had a three - point advantage. After the breather , Tai committed a couple of unforced errors at both the flanks , while Sindhu came up with a backhand retrn near the net to reduce the margin to 10-13 , but Tai quickly recovered to extend her domination to 16-13. Sindhu tried to anticipate her deceptive rival and put Tai in awkward positions a few times , but she hit long or at the net to allow the Taiwanese lead 18-14. A gritty Sindhu , however , kept breathing down her neck and soon clawed back at 18-18. During the next really, the string of the Sindhu's racquet broke and Tai unleashed a smash which left the indian frustrated .