Paris, Aug. 29 -- India's top shuttler PV Sindhu's campaign at the BWF World Championships concluded with a bitter defeat in the quarter-finals against Indonesia's Putri Kusuma Wardani.

World number 15 Sindhu was ousted by world number nine by 14-21, 21-13, 16-21 in a fixture that lasted an hour and four minutes. Throughout the contest, Putri played shots deceptively to make Sindhu cover the entire court. Sindhu tried to negate it with her long reach but lacked the composure to wrap up the game in her favour.

The pulsating contest began as a cagey affair with both shuttlers making a couple of unforced errors from the start, leaving them inseparable at 3-3. After an impressive counterplay, Putri took a narrow 6-8 lead over Sindhu and ext...