World badminton champion P.V Sindhu distributes essential items during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Hyderabad.
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Ace badminaton player P V Sindhu at an event in Chennai.
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Shuttler P V Sindhu of Hyderabad Hunters in action against the Awadh Warriors in the Premier Badminton League (PBL) match at BBD, Lucknow.
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Badminton player PV Sindhu speaks during release of the book "I Am Possible", authored by Apollo Group-Hospitals President K Hari Prasad, in Hyderabad.
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PV Sindhu in action against Priyanshu Rajawat during second day of Star Sports Premier Badminton League 2020, in Chennai.
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India's Pusarla V. Sindhu hits a return shot against Taiwan's Tai Tzu Ying during Malaysian Master 2020 during Women Single Quarter Finals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Badminton star PV Sindhu co-pilots a Light Combat Aircraft during Aero India show in Bengaluru in February. The Olympic silver medallist became the first woman to do a sortie in th...
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World Champion PV Sindhu gestures as she leaves Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju's residence, in New Delhi. Sindhu became the first Indian to win the badminton World Championships by b...
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Badminton player PV Sindhu greets her fans in Thiruvannathapuram
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India's Pusarla V. Sindhu returns a shuttlecock to USA's Beiwen Zhang during their women's singles round of sixteen match at the BWF Badminton World Championships in the St. Jakobs...
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India's Pusarla V. Sindhu cheers after winning her women's singles final match against Japan's Nozomi Okuhara at the BWF Badminton World Championships in Basel, Switzerland.
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India's Pusarla V. Sindhu hits a return shot against China's He Bing Jiao during their women's singles badminton match at the World Tour Finals in Guangzhou in south China's Guangd...
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India's Pusarla V. Sindhu hits a return shot against Chen Yu Fei of China during the women's singles match at the World Tour Finals in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province...
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Badminton player PV Sindhu meets actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan at Makkal Needhi Maiam party office, in Chennai.
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World Badminton Champion PV Sindhu during an event at a private school, in Chennai.
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Badminton player PV Sindhu greets her fans in Thiruvannathapuram.
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Badminton player PV Sindhu comes out of the Attukal temple in Thiruvannathapuram.
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Badminton World Champion PV Sindhu flanked by Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation Director Dr P Raghu Ram (L) and Telangana government Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan at the lau...
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BWF World Champion PV Sindhu at the launch of the first-of-its-kind campaign that uses augmented reality to raise awareness about breast cancer, in Hyderabad
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World Badminton champion P V Sindhu celebrates Batukamma festival in Hyderabad.
A week after a demoralising defeat at the Toyota Thailand Open quarterfinals, PV Sindhu produced a much-improved performance but still lost to Tzu Ying in a 59-minute match
PV Sindhu outclassed Malaysia's world no. 92 Kisona Selvaduray in a lop-sided second-round contest. She will face either Thailand's Ratchanok Inthanon or Korea's Sung Ji Hyun next
The highlight of the day was the lion-hearted performance by world no 31 Sameer, who stunned eighth seed Lee 18-21 27-25 21-19 in a thrilling opening match
The Indian players seemed to struggle with their fitness as none of them could cross the second round at the Thailand Open, the first event of the Asia leg
PV Sindhu's loss ended India's campaign in women's singles as the other contender Saina Nehwal was forced out after testing positive for COVID-19 on the eve of the tournament
While PV Sindhu has been training in London for the last two months, Saina Nehwal was down with COVID-19 and has recently recovered from the dreaded disease
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, who made history recently, speaks to Outlook about the mental pressure ahead of the world championships final, her future plans and a number of issues involving badminton in India
India won a whopping 227 international medals in July but how many of those will translate into an Olympic gold, silver or bronze in Tokyo 2020? The sports ministry feels India's best chance will be in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympics