India Social,Political and Educational: PV Sindhu, the Glory of India

Short Biography of PV Sindhu:-

PV Sindhu

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu was born in Hyderabad presently in Telangana on 5^th July in 1995. Her father PV Ramana is international volleyball player. He won the gold medal in the 1986 Asian Games. PV Sindhu was admitted to Pullela Gopichand Academy. She is pursuing MBA from St. Anns College for Women, Mehdipatnam. She has a weight of 65kg or 143 lb. She is 1.79 metre in height. She held the highest ranking of 9 on and from 13^th March, 2014. Her present ranking is 10.

PV Sindhu with Her Parents

Medal List of PV Sindhu:-

Medal	Game	Type	Year	Place
Gold	Commonwealth Youth	Girl’s Singles	2011	Douglas
Bronze	Asian Junior Championship	Girl’s Singles	2011	Lucknow
Bronze		Mixed Team	2011	Lucknow
Gold		Girl’s Singles	2012	Gimcheon
Bronze	World Championships	Women’s Singles	2013	Guangzhou
Bronze	World Championships	Women’s Singles	2014	Copenhagen
Bronze	Asia Championships	Women’s Singles	2014	Gimcheon
Bronze	Asian Games	Women’s Team	2014	Incheon
Bronze	Commonwealth Games	Women’s Singles	2014	Glasgow
Bronze	Uber Cup	Team	2014	New Delhi
Bronze	Uber Cup	Team	2016	Kunshan
Silver	South Asian Games	Women’s Singles	2016	Guwahati
Gold	South Asian Games	Women’s Team	2016	Guwahati
Silver	Olympic Games	Women’s Singles	2016	Rio De Janeiro

This talented player showed her brilliance in 2011 when she got the gold medal in commonwealth youth games. She repeated her excellence in 2014 when she achieved the third position in commonwealth games to receive the bronze medal. Finally she has done the improvement and gone to the final in the summer Olympics. She has been awarded with the silver medal.

She won 184 matches out of 270 in singles. In doubles, she won 9 out of 17 matches.

Year-wise Achievements of PV Sindhu:-

2007

Winner, Singles and Doubles, Under-13 Sub Junior Nationals, Dehradun

2008

Runner up, Sub Junior Nationals, Patna,

2009

1. Winner, Nationals Ranking Tournaments, Hyderabad

2. Bronze Medalist, Sub Junior Asian Badminton Championships, Colombo,

2010

1. Runner up, Iran Fajr International Tournament, Iran,

2. Quarter-finalist, Junior World Championship, Malaysia,

3. Quarter-finalist, Uber Cup, Malaysia,

4. Bronze Medalist, Doubles, ANA Badminton Asia Youth U17, Chiba, Japan

5. Runner Up, Doubles, 35th National Junior (U-19) Championships, Pondicherry,

6. Winner, 35th National Junior (U-19) Championships, Pondicherry

7. Semi-Finalist, Indian Grand Prix, Hyderabad, 2010

2011

1. Winner, All India Senior Ranking Tournament, Atul,

2. Winner, Junior International Challenge, Pune,

3. Bronze Medalist, Asian U-19 Championships, Lucknow,

4. Winner, Maldives International Challenge, Maldives,

5. Winner, Indonesia International Challenge, Surabaya,

6. Winner, Commonwealth Youth Games, Isle of Man,

7. Runner up, Dutch Open Grand Prix, Almere,

8. Winner, Swiss International Challenge, Bern,

9. Winner, Tata Open International Challenge, Mumbai

2012

1. Semi-Finalist, Malaysian Grand Prix Gold, Malaysia

2. Winner, Asian Junior Championships, Gimcheon,

3. Semi-Finalist, China Masters Super Series, Changzhou,

4. Runner Up, Syed Modi Indian Grand Prix Gold, Lucknow,

2013

1.Semi-finalist, Indian Open Super Series, New Delhi

1. Winner, Malaysian Grand Prix Gold, Kuala Lumpur,

2. Bronze – World Championships, China

2014

1. Bronze – Commonwealth Games, Glasgow

2. Bronze – World Championships, Denmark

3. Bronze (Team) – Asian Games, Incheon

4. Runner up Syed Modi International

2015

1. Winner, Macau Open GPG

2. Winner, Malaysia Masters GPG, Penang

3. Runner Up Denmark Open

2016

1. Runner Up, South Asian Games,

2. Runner Up, Olympic

India’s Pride PV Sindhu:-

So finally our pride PV Sindhu ended her running one milestone behind. But her effort will never be forgotten. She is 21 years of age and the challenge that she gave before the world no 1 badminton player will ever be remembered.

The quarter final was a hard clash between the world no2 and our pride Sindhu.