India’s young women shuttler Unnati Hooda has made a big upset in BWF Super 1000 China Open-2025. She has defeated PV Sindhu, who has won the country’s experienced women’s badminton player Double Olympic medal in the pre-quarterfinals of the tournament.
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With this defeat, PV Sindhu’s journey in the tournament ended. At the same time, Unnati will now play a quarter -final match with Japanese player Akane Yamaguchi. Please tell that 17 -year -old Unnati Hooda is originally from Rohtak in Haryana.
Earlier, PV Sindhu and Unnati Hooda collided in the semi-finals of Syed Modi Super 300 Tournament-2024. In this, PV Sindhu defeated Unnati in a set of 21–12, 21-9 and entered the finals.
How the match passed, know in 3 points …
- The match between 2 Indian players PV Sindhu and Unnati Hooda took place in the Round of-16 match in the women’s singles of China Open-2025. The match saw a fight for the beat of the two shuttlers, but in the end Unnati defeated Sindhu directly into the set of 21-19, 19-21, 21-13.
- From the first set of the match, Unnati Hooda was heavy on PV Sindhu. He won the first set 21-19, showing a brilliant game. After this, PV Sindhu retorted and returned to the match and won the second set from 19-21 thanks to the best game.
- After this, the final set of the match was about to decide the result between the two. The set was expected to see a tough competition between the two players, but the Indus looked weak in front of the advancement. In the end Unnati took the final set 21-13.
Having reached here after defeating Scottish player, now expected from them With this, PV Sindhu is out of the tournament. She reached the pre-quarterfinals after defeating Japanese player Tomoka Miazaki number 6 in the world. He defeated the Japanese player 21-15, 8-21, 21-17.
Now the country’s expectations at the China Open are on Unnati Hooda, who are 35th seeded players in the world. Unnati defeated the Scottish shuttler Christie Gilmor in two sets of 21-11, 21-16 in the round of-32. The game lasted 36 minutes.
Unnati Hooda with Coach Pravesh Kumar. – File photo
Started playing in the street According to coach Pravesh Kumar, Unnati started with street game. After that she came to Chhoturam Stadium and she won the district level tournament after some time coaching. Unnati’s first meeting with PV Sindhu was when Unnati won gold in the JBC Cup in Delhi. At that time PV Sindhu was the chief guest. He was the one who put on the medal to Unnati.
At the same time, Uber became a part of Team India for the first time in Cup-2022, which PV Sindhu was leading. Unnati Hooda has passed 12th from CBSE Board this year. Unnati’s father Upkar Hooda is a businessman. At the moment, he is in China with progress.
PV Sindhu honored Unnati Hooda after winning the JBC Nationals tournament held in Delhi in 2022. – File photo
Proud is from Chamaria village in Rohtak Unnati Hooda, who emerged as a new sensation in badminton, is a resident of Chamaria village in Rohtak. He started playing badminton at the age of 7. His father Upkar Hooda is a fan of Hooda Badminton and enrolled the daughter in Chhotu Ram Stadium Badminton Academy.
First senior title in the year 2022 The first tournament of progress in the year 2021 was India International Challenge. There she lost to Anupama Upadhyay in the final. At the same time, in the year 2022, Unnati played the Odisha Open, where in the final, defeating Smit Toshniwal won the tournament. Unnati won a silver medal in the 2022 Badminton Asia Junior Under-17 and Under-15 Championships held in Nontaburi, Thailand.
Aubadhabi Masters title in 2023 In the year 2023, Unnati Hooda defeated India’s Samiya Imad Farooqui in the Abu Dhabi Masters final and won his second BWF World Tour title. After this, India won India International Challenge by defeating Tasnim Mir of India.
