Badminton World Championships: On slow courts, embattled Sindhu hopes luck drifts her way
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The alchemy of a PV Sindhu-Nozomi Okuhara faceoff and long rallies is etched on minds since that glorious August of 2017 when the two played the Glasgow World Championships final. At Basel two years later, Sindhu won a short, snappy summit clash. The last time they met, though – in the All England quarters in 2020 – it was again a three-setter back and forth with long, punishing rallies in slow conditions.Four years on, and much earlier than they’d like in a tournament week, the two will meet in Round of 32 at Copenhagen. On a lower perch than the pedestal, and with considerably slower limbs now, the two will go another round at the Royal Arena in the Danish capital which winkingly has conspired to give them the slow shuttle conditions that can see them reprise the long rally game...