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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.
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.
P. V. Sindhu – Silver medal in 2016 and Bronze medal in 2020 for Badminton, the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion and the only badminton player from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.
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.
[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]
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 ...
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.
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Andhra Telugu girl born in Secunderabad or Hyderabad. Her parents PV Ramana and P Vijaya are from Coastal Andhra (Old Krishna District -- which includes West Godavari, Krishna and Guntur). PV Sindhu is a non-vegetarian. The family is either Kapu, Vaisya, Brahmin or Kamma.