The tournament's seventh seed Pusarla Venkata Sindhu of India successfully navigated her way to the quarterfinal round of the ongoing 2016 BWF Thaihot China Open after defeating Beiwen Zhang of the United States with a hard-fought 18-21, 22-20, 21-17 second round victory on Thursday in Fuzhou.

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Sindhu, who is the 2016 Summer Olympic Games silver medalist, struggled in the opening set but managed to outlast Zhang in the following games to book her seat in the final eight of the women's singles event. The Indian badminton ace wrapped up the match in exactly an hour, according to the tournament results of the official website of the BWF.

It was the third victory of Sindhu over the 26-year-old reigning Dutch Open champion in their three official matches. The Hyderabad native is looking to continue her brilliant performance following her recent successful campaign in the Olympics last August.

According to Hindustan Times, after forcing a decider, the third and final set was equally well fought with the 21-year-old Sindhu challenging every point very well. The two world class player went neck and neck till 9-9, but the 2016 Malaysia Masters Indian titlist slowly pulled away with a 16-12 lead.

Zhang managed to reduce the gap to just two points (19-17), but the world No. 11 Sindhu, who is looking to win her maiden China Open title, sailed through winning the match 21-17.

Sindhu will be facing China's He Bingjiao, who is the newly crowned Bitburger Open champion, in the quarterfinals to earn a place in the semifinal stage of the USD 700,000 World Superseries badminton event.

The current world No. 10 He defeated the Thai badminton player Porntip Buranaprasertuk in two sets 22-20, 21-15 that lasted for 35 minutes only. The 19-year-old Chinese star, which has been making her presence felt in the recent top BWF events, enjoys a 4-2 head-to-head matchup advantage over Sindhu.

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