P.V.Sindhu Birthday 2020: Happy Birthday P.V.Sindhu Wishes, Quotes, Images, Status, Pics, Songs, Videos, Photos

P.V.Sindhu Birthday 2020: Happy Birthday P.V.Sindhu Wishes, Quotes, Images, Status, Pics, Songs, Videos, Photos:

P.V.Sindhu Birthday 2020

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian professional badminton player. Having made her international debut in 2009, she rose to a career high ranking of no. 2 in April 2017. Over the course of her career, Pusarla has won medals at multiple tournaments including Olympics and on the BWF circuit including a gold at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion.

Pusarla broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Ranking in September 2012 at the age of 17.Beginning in 2013, Pusarla won a medal at every world championships, with the exception of 2015. She is just the second woman after Zhang Ning to win five or more medals at the world championships. Pusarla represented India at the 2016 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Indian badminton player to reach a final. She won the silver medal after losing out to Spain’s Carolina Marin.

Pusarla won her first superseries title at the 2016 China Open and followed it up with four more finals in 2017, winning the titles in South Korea and India. In addition to that, she has won a silver medal each at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Asian Games, and two bronze medals at the Uber Cup.

With earnings of US$8.5 million and $5.5 million respectively, Pusarla made the Forbes‘ list of Highest-Paid Female Athletes in 2018 and 2019.She is the recipient of the sports honour Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, and India’s fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri. She was also honoured with Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India, in January 2020.

Pusarla has been employed with Bharat Petroleum since July 2013, as an assistant sports manager with their Hyderabad office. Following her silver-medal win at the Rio Olympics, she was promoted to deputy sports manager. She was appointed as first brand ambassador of Bridgestone India.She was also appointed as the Deputy Collector (Group-I) by the Andhra Pradesh government.

She was the flag bearer for the Indian contingent in the opening ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Pusarla was named the BBC Indian Sportswoman of Year on 8 March 2020.In April, she was elected as one of the ambassadors of BWF Committee’s campaign – “I am Badminton” to promote clean and fair play in the sport.