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Pusarla Venkata Sindhu was born on 5 July 1995, in Hyderabad, India, into the Telugu-speaking family of P. V. Ramana and P. Vijaya. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Both her parents hail from Andhra Pradesh . [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Her mother is from Vijayawada , while her father's family is originally from Eluru and later moved to Guntur and Nirmal , where he was born.
Badminton is a popular sport in India. It is managed by the Badminton Association of India which is associated with Badminton Asia and Badminton World Federation.. Indian shuttlers Prakash Padukone, Srikanth Kidambi, Jwala Gutta, Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, H. S. Prannoy, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have all ranked in the world's top ten.
En route to the finals she beat 3 seeded players Chen Yufei, P. V. Sindhu and Ratchanok Intanon. However she finished second-best after losing the final to Tai Tzu-ying. [ 107 ] She won her second gold in Commonwealth Games women's singles after beating P. V. Sindhu in the final [ 108 ] and led the Indian team to another gold medal in the mixed ...
In the women's singles semi-finals, facing the tournament's No. 3 seed Olympic runner-up P. V. Sindhu, Yamaguchi lost 1–2, winning the women's singles bronze medal. [52] In a repeat clash of previous edition's French Open final, Yamaguchi beat the top seeded Tai Tzu-ying in three games, 22–20, 17–21, 21–13. In the process, she avenged ...
Gayatri Gopichand Pullela (born 4 March 2003) is an Indian badminton player. [1] She is the daughter of former badminton players P. V. V. Lakshmi and Pullela Gopichand. [2] She was part of the team that clinched the gold medal at the 2019 South Asian Games.
The award is named after Arjuna, a character from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India.He is one of the Pandavas, depicted as a skilled archer winning the hand of Draupadi in marriage and in the Kurukshetra War, Krishna becomes his charioteer teaching him the sacred knowledge of Gita. [4]
[7] [8] The latest revision in 2018 stipulates that the award is given only to the disciplines included in the events like Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championship and World Cup along with Cricket, Indigenous Games, and Parasports.
The Khel Ratna Award (Hindi pronunciation: [kʰeːl rət̪nə]), officially known as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (transl. Major Dhyan Chand Sport Jewel Award) or formerly known as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, is the highest sporting honour of India. [1]