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Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995), popularly known as PV Sindhu, is an Indian badminton player. [6] Considered as one of India's most successful athletes, Sindhu has won medals at tournaments such as the Olympic Games , the World Championships , and on the World Tour .
P.V. Sindhu became the first Indian player to win the gold medal at the World Championships and also became the only other woman singles player along with China's Zhang Ning to have won five World Championship medals. [6] Japanese Kento Momota, and the duo Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara retained their titles from the previous edition.
The BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation for badminton players who participate in tournaments sanctioned by Badminton World Federation. It is used to determine the qualification for the World Championships and Summer Olympic Games , [ 1 ] as well as BWF World Tour tournaments. [ 2 ]
The Indian team competed in the 2011 Sudirman Cup and shared the fifth rank while also repeating the performance in 2017. The Indian team is currently ranked 9th in the World. [3] They has won 3 medals at the Summer Olympics, 10 medals at the BWF World Championships, 10 medals at the Asian Games and 25 medals at the Commonwealth Games. [4]
P. V. Sindhu is the first Indian to become the World Champion, which she achieved in 2019, and the only badminton player from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] One of the most successful Indian doubles player is Jwala Gutta , who was the only Indian to have rank in the top 10 of two categories.
The 32 tournaments are divided into five levels: Level 1 is the said World Tour Finals, Level 2 called Super 1000 (4 tournaments), Level 3 called Super 750 (6 tournaments), Level 4 called Super 500 (9 tournaments) and Level 5 called Super 300 (12 tournaments). Each of these tournaments offers different ranking points and prize money.
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [81] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. [82] Women's singles
The women's singles tournament of the 2019 BWF World Championships (World Badminton Championships) took place from 19 to 25 August. The Badminton World Federation has conducted a re-draw of the women's singles event on 9 August, because a player had mistakenly been included in the entry list. [1]