Malvika Bansod Vs Chen Yufei Highlights, Thailand Open: Chen Yufei Seals Victory In Straight Games

Malvika Bansod will be up against Chen Yufei in their round of 16 match at the Thailand Open 2026.

Seems like the Malvika Bansod vs Chen Yufei match will begin at 5:50pm IST.

Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen advanced to the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open Super 500 tournament with straight-game wins in their respective matches.

India's top-seeded men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also marched into the last-eight stage with a 21-12, 21-19 win over Malaysia's Bryan Jeremy Goonting and Muhammad Haikal.

However, former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth crashed out after going down 16-21, 21-11, 18-21 to Chinese Taipei's world No. 47 Su Li Yang.

Seems like the Malvika Bansod vs Chen Yufei match will begin at 6:40pm IST as a doubles match between Syahnawi A- Marwah N V and Cheng X-Zhang C is currently ongoing on the Court 1. They are in the decider third game.

Finally the previous match has ended and now he players Malvika Bansod and Chen Yu Fei come out on the court. They start warm-up as the match is about to get underway soon.

The match has commenced with low intensity and Chen Yufei, on expected lines has raced to take the lead and went to the break 11-6. Chen Yufei's quick court coverage and backhand shots with accuracy troubled Malvika, although she displayed some good quality shots as well, including some deceptive drop shots. Malvika will have to up her intensity to get back in the game.

Chen Yu Fei closes down the first game 21-12 successfully. Her footwork, quality of shots, court coverage was comfortably dominant over Malvika Bansod and she thwarted Malvika's attacks repeatedly. This led to errors from Malvika and the lead was comfortable to take Chen over the finishing line. Malvika got four points in a row towards the end, but it was not enough to stop Chen to take the game.

The match is slipping out of Malvika Bansod's hand. Chen Yufei has taken a massive lead of 11-2 in the break of game 2. Chen Yufei's intensity has amped up a lot in the second game and Malvika has found no answers to that. Malvika doesn't have a good smash and that means Chen Yufei is troubling her time and again with only defence and accuracy. The Chinese is looking to close things out soon.

On expected lines, Chen Yufei wins 21-12, 21-7 and moves the second round. She was overwhelmingly dominant on the Indian Malvika Bansod and that reflected in the scoreline. Malvika's attacks made no dents in Chen's armoury and the Chinese's attacks proved to be too much for Malvika to return. At one point, the scoreline looked more one-sided but Malvika salvaged a few points before the second game came to a close.

That’s a wrap from this live blog. We’ll be back with another one soon, until then, bye bye.