PV Sindhu is 1st Indian to win gold at BWF World Tour Finals

23-year-old P.V. Sindhu has suffered a series of near-misses in recent years, winning silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and again at the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games this year.


SHANGHAI: P.V. Sindhu celebrated gold at last after the Indian defeated Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara to win badminton’s season-finishing World Tour Finals on Sunday.


The 23-yr-antique has suffered a sequence of close to-misses in recent years, winning silver on the 2016 Rio Olympics, and again on the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games this yr.

The world range six, famend for her never-say-die mind-set, has additionally two times lost in the final of the World Championships and was runner-up in closing 12 months’s season finale.

But she put all that heartbreak in the back of her inside the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou, beating the fifth-ranked Okuhara 21-19, 21-17 inside the ladies’s final in only over an hour.

Sindhu, who turned into usually on top of things of the fit, sealed the championship with a forehand spoil, earlier than collapsing to the courtroom floor on her palms and knees.

The men’s very last later Sunday tees up the 2 top players in the world, top-ranked Kento Momota of Japan against wide variety  and home star Shi Yuqi.

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