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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.
P. V. Sindhu (born 1995) Sports Telangana Professional badminton player. Considered one of India's most successful sportspersons, she has won medals at various tournaments such as the Olympics and on the BWF circuit, including a gold at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first and only Indian to become the badminton world champion, the ...
P. V. Sindhu: Arjuna Award: Female 2014 Valiyaveetil Diju: Arjuna Award: Male 2015 Srikanth Kidambi: Arjuna Award: Male 2018 N. Sikki Reddy: Arjuna Award: Female 2019 B. Sai Praneeth: Arjuna Award: Male 2020 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy: Arjuna Award: Male 2020 Chirag Shetty: Arjuna Award: Male 2022 Lakshya Sen: Arjuna Award: Male 2022 Prannoy H. S ...
En route to the finals she beat 3 seeded players Chen Yufei, P. V. Sindhu and Ratchanok Intanon. However she finished second-best after losing the final to Tai Tzu-ying. [ 107 ] She won her second gold in Commonwealth Games women's singles after beating P. V. Sindhu in the final [ 108 ] and led the Indian team to another gold medal in the mixed ...
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.
Pullela married fellow badminton player P. V. V. Lakshmi on 5 June 2002. [36] They have two children, daughter Gayatri Gopichand , who is a women's doubles badminton player, and son Vishnu. In Dec 2020, he launched guided meditation sessions for athletes named "Dhyana for Sports" in the App Dhyana.
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.
Their elder daughter, P. V. Divya, is a doctor [12] by profession and played netball [12] at the national level. Their younger daughter, P. V. Sindhu , is a badminton player who is a two-time Olympic medallist, having won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics , and a World Champion, having won the ...