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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. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Both her parents hail from Andhra Pradesh . [ 19 ] [ 20 ] 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: 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.
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.
Rio Olympics silver medallist P. V. Sindhu was part of the team for the first three seasons. [6] [9] They won their first and only PBL title in 2017. With P. V. Sindhu in their roster, they defeated Mumbai Rockets 3–2 in the final at New Delhi. [10] During the third and fourth seasons, the team finished sixth.
[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$92,000) to Bengaluru Raptors and Hyderabad Hunters respectively. Indian doubles player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy was the next highest, bought for ₹ 62 lakh (US$74,000) by Chennai Superstarz. [10]