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Sindhu targets home World Championships gold after 2019 triumph
P.V. Sindhu is eager to reclaim the Badminton World Championships title on home soil for the first time since India hosted the event in 2009, when she was 14. The 31-year-old, who…
The Story in Brief
P.V. Sindhu is eager to reclaim the Badminton World Championships title on home soil for the first time since India hosted the event in 2009, when she was 14. The 31-year-old, who won gold in Basel in 2019 and has five Worlds medals, says playing at home is “exciting”. Fresh from a historic Japan Open win, she aims to end a medal drought that followed quarterfinal exits in 2021 and 2025 and a stress fracture withdrawal in 2022.
Sindhu credited better support staff, government schemes like the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, and her own mental evolution for the changes in Indian badminton. “Irrespective of the medal, I want to give my best,” she told The Hindu and Sportstar.
The Indian Opinion
The chatter around Sindhu often swings between two extremes: that she is past her peak, or that home pressure will weigh her down. Neither holds fully. At 31, she has just won the Japan Open and knows these courts from her teens. The real test is not nostalgia but whether she can beat the top five in consecutive matches. Watch her quarterfinal, that is where the medal dream will live or die.
Sources (2): thehindu.com, sportstar.thehindu.com
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
