India thrash Kazakhstan 3-0, enter next stage of Asian Games badminton

Aichi-Nagoya, Sept 20 (UNI) PV Sindhu provided the opening punch before India's young shuttlers delivered the knockout blow as India swept Kazakhstan 3-0 without dropping a single game in the women's badminton team event at the Asian Games here on Sunday. There was little drama in a tie India dominated from the first shuttle. Sindhu, Unnati Hooda and Tanvi Sharma conceded just 48 points between them across three matches, underlining the gulf between the two sides. Sindhu, the two-time Olympic medallist, began India's campaign with a clinical 21-7, 21-9 victory over Kamila Smagulova. The Kazakh had few answers to Sindhu's…