P V Sindhu on Sunday became first Indian to win bminton World Championships gold by beating familiar rival zomi Okuhara of Japan in a lop-sided final on Sunday in Basel, Switzerland. Indian won 21-7 21-7 in summit clash that lasted just 38 minutes.

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PV Sindhu breaks final jinx

Two years after being robbed of gold by Okuhara in an epic 110-minute final at Glasgow that went down as one of greatest battles in bminton history, Sindhu finally exorcised ghost of that heart-wrenching loss with a completely dominating win over same opponent. It was Sindhu's fifth World Championships medal -- joint-most for a woman singles player with former Olympics and world champion Zhang Ning of China -- to go with two successive silvers and a couple of bronze medals. Sindhu has also won Olympic silver in 2016 Rio Games, silver at Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, an Asian Games silver at Jakarta and BWF World Tour Finals last year.

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PV Sindhu has an easy outing against zomi Okuhara

Olympic silver medalist h an easy outing against her long-time rival zomi Okuhara as she did t have to break a sweat against world number 4 Japanese shuttler. Okuhara h clue and answers for Sindhu's attacking strokeplay. zomi Okuhara h defeated PV Sindhu in final of same event in 2017. However, this time, she was never in contest against her Indian opponent. All Okuhara mand to get right on big day was winning first point of first game. After that, it was PV Sindhu all way as she scored eight straight points. With great difficulty, zomi Okuhara mand ar point as she trailed Sindhu 11-2 heing into interval. Post interval, Japanese shuttler mand to get five more points but PV Sindhu was way too good for her as she very quickly completed first set by ding 10 points and reby, winning set 21-7.

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