BAI also announced a reward of Rs. 10 lakhs for Dronacharya awardee coach Pullella Gopichand who trained Sindhu to achieve this feat.
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India’s badminton star PV Sindhu did a courageous effort to win a gold medal for India but ended up with silver medal in the women’s singles badminton championship while her Spain counterpart Carolina Marin won the match and gold medal at the Rio Olympics on Friday.
Another Rs 50 lakh has been awarded to the young champion by the Badminton Association of India bringing the net worth of her prize money to a whopping Rs 1 crore. Win the first Olympic Gold for Badminton for the country?
“She didn’t want to change the shuttle because she wanted me to lose focus”.
10 lost to Spain’s Carolina Marin by 21-19, 12-21, 15-21 in the thrilling final match held at Riocentro. Sindhu kept herself in the game till 14-16 but soon ran out of ideas. Her parents Ramana, an Arjuna awardee and his wife P Vijaya, both were volleyball players. Badminton is doing really well in India. She displayed grace and class as she went over to Marin’s side of the court after the match to hug her opponent and lift the 23-year-old who has been dubbed the “Girl Nadal in Spain”. There are are many players coming up, and many more will succeed.
The Sindhu s hard fought silver was India s second medal of the Rio Olympics after female wrestler Sakshi Malik claimed bronze on Wednesday. Marin’s screams were annoying and it was meant to provoke Sindhu.
Quarter-final: By beating 2012 London Olympics silver medalist Wang Yihan in the quarterfinals, Sindhu nearly assured a medal for country.
Uber India also congratulated Sindhu on its Twitter page. She is the first woman badminton player to enter into badminton finals.
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Coach Fernando Rivas and mind trainer Pablo del Rio had played a big part in building Carolina as a champion and she heartily thanked them for her achievement. “Next time she will go for gold”, said Ramana.
