BWF World Championships 2019 – PV Sindhu’s Proud Moment to India: Dear Aspirants, Pusarala Venkata Sindhu is an Indian Professional Badminton player born on 5 July 1995 at Hyderabad. P.V. Sindhu created history as she became the first Indian to win gold in badminton World Championships at Basel, Switzerland by beating higher- ranked Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in a lop-sided summit clash.
BWF World Championships 2019 – PV Sindhu’s Proud Moment to India
- The Olympic silver-medalist Indian won 21-7 21-7 in the final that lasted just 38 minutes.
- Two years after being robbed off the gold by Nozomi Okuhara in an epic 110-minute final at Glasgow that was considered as one of the greatest battles in badminton history, Sindhu finally exorcised the ghost of that heart-wrenching loss with a completely dominating win over the same opponent.
- Sindhu has also won silver in Olympic Games Rio 2016, a silver at Gold coast Commonwealth Games , a silver at Jakarta Asian Games and the BWF World Tour Finals last year.
- Sindhu grabbed as many as 13 game points when Okuhara went long and she sealed the first game with a body blow which her rival sent out.
- In the second game, Sindhu continued her rampaging form, grabbing two quick points before Okuhara earned a point with a cross court smash.
- Sindhu grabbed the match point when Okuhara went long again and sealed the title when another superb return before throwing her hands in the air in celebration.
- It was third lucky time for Sindhu who had lost to Okuhara and Carolina Marin of Spain in the 2017 and 2018 Finals respectively to settle for a silver twice.
- With her fifth medal of the World Championships, PV Sindhu was already one of the greatest ever women’s singles players in the showpiece event’s history. She had won a bronze each in the 2013 and 2014 editions.
- Sindhu is now the joint highest medal winner in women’s singles in the World Championships history with former Olympic champion Zhang Ning of China who has won an identical 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze between 2001 and 2007.
- With Sindhu’s gold and Praneeth’s bronze in this edition, Indian shuttlers also continued the six-year streak of winning at least one medal in the prestigious event.
- The Badminton Association of India announced a cash reward of Rs.20 lakh for PV Sindhu and Rs.5 lakh for B. Sai Praneeth who won bronze in the BWF World Championship.
- PM Modi, President and other leaders, sports personalities have Applauded PV Sindhu for her Historic Win. It’s a proud moment for India.
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