Ace shuttler PV Sindhu achieved an extraordinary feat in Basel, Switzerland. Shဣe became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the BWF World Champ🌄ionship, 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 bea🥀t Okuhara i☂n 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.”
C🌞ongrats 🐻 on winning the Gold medal at Great exhibition of skill, fitness and mental strength to defeat Japan’s Okuhara in such an emphatic fashion. Proud of you.
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
Here’s how the rest of the cricketing world reꦆacted –
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)
Congratulatio🌠ns for winning the Gol🌠d 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 Indian sport. 🅷What a day. Proud.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
PV Sindhu.. 1st Indian to win BWF World Championships Gold Medal. So pr🥂oud of you. Congratulations𓆏 👏 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)
Congratulation🐎s for winning gold at the .. Such a proud moment for us 🇮🇳
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25)
Heartiest congratulations to PV ℱSindhu on becoming the first Indian to clinch 2019 Gold. Very proud of your outstanding achievement 🙏
— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc)
