Indian badminton star PV Sindhu, who has been battling a bad phase since winning the gold at the World Championships, hopes to return to form in the last BWF World Tour Finals of the season starting on Wednesday. PV Sindhu will face Yamaguchi of Japan in the match.

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Sindhu won the World Championship in Basel in August but has been in poor form since then. Olympic silver medalist Sindhu reached the finals of the Indonesia Open Super 750 tournament in July. Since then the Korea Open and Fuzhou Open in the first round. Dropped out in the second round of China Open, Denmark Open, and Hong Kong Open. Only the top 8 players in the BWF Race to Guangzhou rankings play the World Tour Finals.

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Sindhu will finish 15th at the end of this year, but being the world champion, she will get an opportunity to play. Sindhu took a break after the Hong Kong Open to prepare for the World Finals. She has played finals in 2017 and 2018. This time in Group-A, they are paired with Chen Yu Fei of China, Hi Bing Xiao and Akane Yamaguchi of Japan. In Group B, Taiwan's Tei Ju Ying, Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon and Bu Ann are Ongbamrungfn and Japan Nozomi Okuhara.

The first match will be Sindhu with Yamaguchi who won the titles in Indonesia and Japan. After that, she was knocked out in the first round of 4 tournaments due to a hip injury. Sindhu has a 10-6 record against this Japanese player, but she lost the last two matches. Before the tournament starting on Wednesday, PV Sindhu has hoped that she will do better and once again she will be back strong.

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