BENGALURU: Defending champions Delhi Acers defeated Chennai Smashers 5-2 to finally register their first win of the Premier Badminton League (PBL) season II at the Koramangala Indoor Stadium on Sunday.
Delhi, who are currently lying at the bottom of the table and are virtually out of contention for the knock-outs, finally got their winning mojo back and salvage some pride.
Acers, who won three matches on the trot to go 3-0 up in the tie, needed their men's doubles pair of Ivan Sozonov and Vladimir Ivanov to pick up a win over the pair of Chris Adcock and Mads Pieler Kolding to put the tie out of Chennai's reach.
Coming in with huge expectations and playing in a trump match, the heavyweight Delhi pair did not disappoint and displayed a dominant performance to win the match 11-6, 11-6 to take an unassailable 5-0 lead over Smashers.
In the last match of the tie, it was PV Sindhu, playing in the trump match for Smashers was up against Tanvi Lad of Acers.
With the tie already sealed in favour of the Acers, it was for Sindhu to salvage two crucial points and maintain their top position on the points table. And as expected, it was Sindhu who eventually won the match 11-6 11-7 to go to third position on the points table with 10 points.
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