Ace shuttler PV Sin🐬dhu achieved an extraordinary feat in Basel, Switzerland. She became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the BWF World Championship, thus making her country proud.
Having been a ‘silver girl’ in the last two years, the 24-year-old finally got her gold with a phenomenal performance against Japan’s♛ Nozomi Okuhara. Sindhu beat Okuhara in straight games by 21-7, 21-7 in just 38 minutes.
From Sachin Tendulkar to VVS Laxman, the entire cricket fraternity lauded the badminton champ’s historic achievement.
Tendulkar tweeted –
“Amazing performance, @Pvsindhu1!
Congratulations on becoming the 1st ever 🇮🇳 to win the BWF World Championships!
You have made India proud, yet again.
#BWFWorldChampionships2019”
Amazing performance, !
Congratulations on becoming the 1st ever 🇮🇳 to win the BWF World Championships!
You have made India proud, yet again.— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt)
Laxman wrote –
“Congrats @Pvsindhu1 on winning the Gold medal at #BWFWorldChampionships2019 Great exhibition of skill, fitness and mental strength to defeat Japan’s Okuhara in such an emphatic fashion. Proud of you.”
Congrats on winning the Gold medal at Great exhibition of skill, fitness and mental strength to defeat Japan’s Okuhar𝕴a in such an emphatic fashion. Proud of you.
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
Here’s how the rest of the 🌳c🃏ricketing world reacted –
Purpose fuels passion. Congratulations to the newly crowned World Champion for winning the 🥇 at . Time and again, you've made us Indians proud!
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir)
Congratulations for 🙈winning the Gold at the BWF World Championships. You are an inspiration!
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
This has to be the most commanding performance by an Indian athlete, certainly in living memory. 21-7, 21-7. What a star . Great moment for Indiꦑ💜an sport. What a day. Proud.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
PV Sindhu.. 1st Indian to win BWF World Championships Gold Medal. So💮 proud of you. Congratulations �� World Champion!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Congratulations . Terrific stuff. Keep growing!
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha)
It’s been a Super Sunday 4 a sports lover.Firstly winning d 👏and den Unbelievable 🐻match winning knock. One of d greatest innings in🐭 test cricket 4 sure👍 After dat 10th hundred 👏 Congratulations everyone 😊
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj)
The Nation's pride – congratulations on the gold PV Sindhu. Keep the Indian flag flying high.
— 𝕸𝖔𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖉 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖎 (@MdShami11)
Congratulations forꦜ winning gold at the .. Such a proud moment for us 🇮🇳
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25)
Heartiest congratulat🔥ions to PV Sindhu on becoming the first Indian to clinch 2019 Gold. Very pro🦄ud of your outstanding achievement 🙏
— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc)
