Tan Yu Fei Lik Sindhu, advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Singapore Open Badminton Championships, or made an appointment to face An Xiying

On the 29th local time, the world's No. 5 Chinese women's player Chen Yufei defeated India's Sindhu 21:9, 18:21, 21:16 in the top 16 of the Super 750 Series 2025 Singapore Open Badminton Women's Singles and advanced to the top 8.

World No. 5 Chinese women's player Chen Yufei

Chen Yufei won the Asian Championships, the Swiss Open and the Thailand Open this year, while Sindhu's home home quarter-finals at the beginning of the year were his best result of the season, and then he was knocked out in the first round several times and slipped to 17th in the world rankings.

The two sides have met 12 times in the past, winning 6 wins each, and Chen Yufei, who recently won 3 consecutive victories against each other, played strongly at the start of today's game, relying on the accurate landing point of the killing ball many times, forcing Xindu to score mistakes, and taking the lead with a huge gap of 21:9.

Entering the second game, Sindhu regained the offensive dominance and scored many kills, while Chen Yufei frequently made mistakes out of bounds, Xindu pulled out a 9:2 attack in the 9:9 stalemate stage to expand the difference, Chen Yufei tried to catch up but still fell short, Sindhu pulled back a city with 21:18.

In the deciding game, the two sides had a lead over each other, but Chen Yufei was more calm at the critical moment, she first came from 9:12 behind, and took the lead at 16:14, and in the final decisive stage, she also found a surprise opportunity through a multi-shot duel, and Sindhu also made a mistake in front of the net, which became a watershed in the victory, Chen Yufei won 21:16 in the final game, and she will face the winner of the battle between South Korea's queen An Seying and Singapore's Yang Jiamin.