PV Sindhu Vs An Se Young Highlights, Singapore Open Quarter-Final: Indian Goes Down Fighting To World No. 1

Good morning folks. We are building up to the start of the BWF Super 750 Singapore Open's quarter-final between PV Sindhu and An Se Young on Court 1 of Singapore Indoor Stadium. Watch this space for the pre-match info and live updates!

The match is third on Court 1, with the first match, another women's singles quarter-final between Ratchanok Intanon and Akane Yamaguchi, currently into its second game. The estimated start time is thus roughly 11:10am IST, though the actual timing will depend on when the two prior matches conclude.

The PV Sindhu vs An Se Young, Singapore Open 2026 quarter-final will be live streamed on the JioHotstar app and website in India. Whether or not the match will be telecast live is currently unknown.

An Se Young has been PV Sindhu's nemesis on the BWF circuit. The Indian is yet to taste victory against the South Korean Olympic champion after eight meetings. Their last face-off was at the China Masters quarter-final in 2025, where Sindhu lost in straight games 14-21, 13-21.

Men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty, mixed doubles duo Dhruv Kapila-Tanisha Crasto and men's singles ace Lakshya Sen will also be seen in quarter-final action, later in the day. Below are their fixtures and tentative match timings:

The match preceding Sindhu's, a women's doubles last-eight clash between South Korea's Baek Ha Na-Lee So Hee and Japan's Yuki Fukushima-Mayu Matsumoto is into its second game with the first one going to the South Korean pair. Soon after this match ends, Sindhu and An Se Young will take the court.

It's almost time. PV Sindhu and An Se Young arrive on Court 1 and have begun the customary pre-match knocking. Game 1 about to begin in a few seconds.

An Se Young gets the match underway, serving first and setting the tone with a brilliant cross-court winner that bamboozles Sindhu. The Indian retaliates with a powerful smash of her own that the world number one misses.

Sindhu is in the mood to fight! The Indian singles spearhead drills another strong smash past An Se Young before prevailing in a long rally to draw level at 4-4.

The 30-year-old keeps her proactive, confident approach going against the Olympic champion to stay in the hunt. An Se Young takes an 11-7 lead, going into the mid-game interval but the game is much closer than the scoreline suggests. Sindhu is not making the Korean's life easy and seeks a lapse from her to pounce.

Sindhu claws her way closer into the first game with robust defending and alert attacking, to reduce the deficit to 13-15. Can she further unsettle the world number one by taking the lead?

Sindhu with another big smash that lands as a clear winner and harries An Se Young, to keep the Indian in the reckoning in the business end of the first game.

An Se Young garners three game points at 20-17 and despite Sindhu stretching her as far as she could, the South Korean emerges unscathed to take the game 21-17. Sindhu has given a strong account of herself so far and would look to continue in the same vein in Game 2.

The second game begins and is equally intense as the first one so far. The chair umpire calls a point against An Se Young for deeming to have touched the net with her racket during a rally, and the South Korean is not amused. She animatedly tries to explain the umpire that there was no contact, but the decision does not change and Sindhu stays within touch of the world number one.

An Se Young goes into the second game's mid-interval with a four-point cushion at 11-7. She remains favourite to win this, but Sindhu is surely not backing down, right till the end.

Sindhu fighting back once again! She goes from 8-14 down to 12-15 with a series of smashes and angular drops. An Se Young might not have bargained from such a fierce response from the Indian. Let's see how this plays out in the final few Game 2 points.

An Se Young brings up seven match points and Sindhu staves off one of them before the South Korean emerges triumphant on the second one. The top-ranked player wins 21-17, 21-14 to book a place in the women's singles semi-finals. As for Sindhu, she bows out but can keep her head high given the way she fought and pushed her younger, faster, much better ranked opponent throughout the match.