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PV Sindhu
SINDHU, THE DRAGON SLAYER
Intense Training & Sacrifice Fashion Grand Success Story
M Ratnakar I TNN
The Times of India 2013/08/10
Chinese shuttlers are almost invincible on home turf but Pusarla Venkata Sindhu tamed them twice in Aug 2013 and thrice 2012-13. Sindhu made the world sit up and take notice when she stunned Olympic champion Li Xuerui at the Chinese Masters in Changzhou a month after the 2012 London Games.
The 18-year-old (born: July 5, 1995) who trains at the Pullela Gopichand Academy, then hit a rough patch but recovered to down reigning Asian Games gold medallist and former All England champion Shixian Wang at the Asian Badminton Championships in April 2013. On Thursday, she dethroned world champ Wang Yihan before extending her career record against Shixian to 2-0 on Friday.
Early life
Born into a family of volleyball players — her father PV Ramana captained the Indian volleyball team and her mother Vijaya too was a national-level player — Sindhu got attracted to badminton when Gopi won the All England championships in 2001. Though volleyball was what they talked about at home, Sindhu was inspired by Gopi and when she expressed her desire to play badminton her parents encouraged her.
Her struggles started once she joined the Gopichand Academy. She lived at the Railway Colony in Secunderabad and had to travel about 40 km everyday to reach the academy at the other end of town. However, Sindhu never missed a session. Realising that travel made her weary, Gopi advised her father to shift home.
Ramana obliged and now it was his turn to travel 40 km to work. But he was confident that under Gopi’s tutelage his daughter would blossom.
Victories
Sindhu justified the faith by winning a bronze at the sub-junior Asian Badminton Championships in 2009. The next year she reached the quarters of the World Junior Championships.
She won the Asian youth under-19 championship in July 2012 but her best moment came when she beat Xuerui a couple of months later. Sindhu claimed her first major international title by clinching the Malaysian Grand Prix gold in May.
2013: Historic wins…and a defeat
Her victory against Shixian in Aug 2013 ensured her a bronze at the Worlds, a feat never achieved by any Indian woman in singles.
Sindhu faced Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon in the semifinal. Like the Indian, Ratchanok too was 18 and had developed a reputation of being a giantkiller.
Pre- semifinal RANKING: PV Sindhu (Ind): 12 Ratchanok Intanon (Tha): 3
Pre- semifinal Head To Head: 0-1
