Olympics: India's Sindhu bags badminton bronze

India's P.V. Sindhu followed up her silver from 2016 with a women's badminton singles bronze at Tokyo 2020 on Sunday.

She paid tribute to her fans after beating China's He Bing Jiao 21-13 21-15.

"A medal for the country, and at the Olympics is not so easy," an emotional Sindhu said after the nearly hour-long match.

"A lot of Indian fans showed me that love and support and I'm very, very thankful to each one of them," Sindhu added.

 In a fight to the death with women's singles China's Chen Yufei on Sunday at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Meanwhile, China's Chen Yufei won her country its second badminton gold medal.

Chen who ranks number two, beat world number one Tai Tzu-Ying of Taiwan, 21-18 19-21 21-18 with well-angled smashes, clever feints and a feather-light net-game.

The match, full of hypnotic rallies, came close several times, keeping onlookers on the edge of their seats.

"I imagined getting the gold medal and this was very hard," said a breathless Chen Yufei, 23, adding that she couldn't remember the last shot of the match.

Fans of Tai's around the world have desperately wanted her to win a gold at the Olympics, having watched her take down some of the best for years but not medaling at the Games.

Earlier in the men's event, Kevin Cordon's fairytale run came to an end in the semi-finals when the 59th-ranked Guatemalan was knocked out 21-18 21-11 by world number two Viktor Axelsen of Denmark.

China's Chen Long, the champion from the 2016 Rio Games, also advanced to the final after beating Indonesia's Anthony Sinisuka Ginting 21-16 21-11.