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Pusarla Venkata Sindhu was born on 5 July 1995, in Hyderabad, India, into the Telugu-speaking family of P. V. Ramana and P. Vijaya. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Both her parents hail from Andhra Pradesh . [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Her mother is from Vijayawada , while her father's family is originally from Eluru and later moved to Guntur and Nirmal , where he was born.
Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy (PGBA) is a badminton training facility in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. [1] Founded in 2008 by the 2001 All England Open Badminton champion Pullela Gopichand, the facility trains several badminton players such as Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Srikanth Kidambi, Parupalli Kashyap, H.S. Prannoy, Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma.
[8] [9] The highest paid players were the Taiwanese Tai Tzu-ying and Indian P. V. Sindhu, both sold for the maximum amount of ₹ 77 lakh (US$89,000) to Bengaluru Raptors and Hyderabad Hunters respectively. Indian doubles player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy was the next highest, bought for ₹ 62 lakh (US$72,000) by Chennai Superstarz. [10]
P. V. Sindhu: Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun: Anna Cheong Teoh Mei Xing: Ishaan Bhatnagar Tanisha Crasto [36] [37] 2023: Chi Yu-jen: Nozomi Okuhara: Choong Hon Jian Muhammad Haikal: Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi: Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja [38] [39] 2024: Lakshya Sen: P. V. Sindhu: Huang Di Liu Yang: Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand ...
P. V. Sindhu, badminton world champion [12] On 8 March 2020, to coincide with International Women’s Day, the BBC announced P. V. Sindhu as Indian Sportswoman of the Year 2019 at a ceremony held in Delhi. [13] Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (India) Kiren Rijiju was present as the guest of honour at the event.
Badminton is a popular sport in India. It is managed by the Badminton Association of India which is associated with Badminton Asia and Badminton World Federation.. Indian shuttlers Prakash Padukone, Srikanth Kidambi, Jwala Gutta, Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, H. S. Prannoy, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have all ranked in the world's top ten.
The other two medalists from 2016, silver medalist P. V. Sindhu of India and bronze medalist Nozomi Okuhara of Japan, both qualified with Top-10 rankings. P. V. Sindhu was also the reigning world champion and the only one of the three former Olympic medalists to be medalled again where she won the bronze medal.
The 2024 Syed Modi International was the thirty-seventh tournament of the 2024 BWF World Tour and the 2024 edition of the Syed Modi International championships, which have been held since 2009.