PV Sindhu bags silver

- Shivang Goel (shivanggoel997@gmail.com)

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu’s daring effort to become India’s first ever World Champion ended in a heart wrenching defeat in a nail biting final against Nozomi Okuhara.

22-year-old star became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal in 2016.

At Rio 2016, Sindhu defeated Nozomi for a place in the final and Japanese had to settle for a bronze while Sindhu ended with silver.

But this time it was the other way around, the match lasted an incredible one hour and 50 minutes, and at the end, it was Nozomi Okuhara who emerged victorious and clinched the match 21-19, 20-22, 22-20 to take gold at the World Badminton Championships in Glasgow.

While both the players looked out of breath and struggled to move during the match, Sindhu got a bit more tired than the Japanese and that led to the end result.

The two players were so tired that they kept biding time after each rally, even the chair umpire had trouble keeping them on the court. Sindhu even picked up a yellow card for her offence.

Sindhu was very tired in the final round and Japanse cracked her down and outpaced her to win the decider 22-20 and become the 2017 World Champion.

Sindhu now has three World Championships medals. She had won two bronze medals at the previous two editions of the World Badmintion Championship and a silver medal which she won at the Rio Olympics where she had lost to Carolina Marin in the final.