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PV Sindhu 2017 World Championships — PV Sindhu keeps on making history

A year after her stupendous success at the Rio Olympics, PV Sindhu etched her name on the annals of Indian badminton by becoming the first shuttler from the country to reach the summit clash of both the Olympic Games and the World Championships.

Last year in August, the world was mesmerized by her run in Brazil when she accounted for some of the biggest names in the sport such as Tai Tzu Ying, Wang Yihan and Nozomi Okuhara to reach the title showdown. She was ultimately stopped by the two-time world champion Carolina Marin, who needed three games to prevail over the Indian.

That performance proved as the springboard of success for Sindhu, who took it further exactly 12 months later at the World Championships by making it to the final for the first time with a comfortable 21-13, 21-10 win over reigning world junior champion Chen Yufei.

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Sudeshna is a veteran Indian Sports and International Tennis journalist as well as editor at Sportskeeda. She has an overall experience of over 10 years with top publications like The Bridge, Fox Sports Asia, and gained a keen interest in Indian sports since the 2002 Commonwealth and Asian Games when she was in school.

Sudeshna holds a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. She attends tournaments regularly and being a highly experienced journalist, she ensures she only contacts the correct people from her network for the most authentic information to be put in her articles.

Sudeshna’s favorite Indian athlete is PV Sindhu owing to her big-tournament performances. She also admires Tennis legend Rafael Nadal for his resilience and has witnessed the Spaniard in action at the French Open, due to which, Roland Garros is her all-time favorite Grand Slam tournament.

Neeraj Chopra’s gold medal win at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics made a lasting impact on Sudeshna. She has also interviewed him along with Badminton star Chirag Shetty and several other sports personalities. She has done on-ground reporting on multiple ITF tournaments along with the Premier Badminton League, Asian Boxing Championships and the Davis Cup.

When not using her skills and years of experience in crafting compelling content, Sudeshna likes to read, watch movies and travel.

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Edited by Souvik Roy Chowdhury