P.V. Sindhu - An Icon Of Success

P. V. Sindhu’s Recent Recognitions

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On 7 July 2012, Sindhu won Asia Youth Under-19 Championship. Sindhu’s performance at Malaysian open 2013 made her win the maiden Grand Prix Gold title. The best moment in her career perhaps came in the same year when she became India’s first medalist in women’s singles at the Badminton World Championships. P. V. Sindhu ended 2013 on a happy note by winning Macau (मकाऊ) Open Grand Prix Gold title, and also won the Arjun Award, one of the highest honours for a sportsperson in the country. In 2014, she won back-to-back medals in the World Badminton Championship and became the first Indian to do that. In November, 2015, she bagged successive women’s singles title at the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold. The year 2016 brought her another achievement of winning the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold women’s singles title, where she defeated Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour in the final. In August, she reached the semi-final of the women’s singles event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, after defeating World No.2 Wang Yihan.