World Championship gold has healed wounds of all past final debacles except Rio Olympics, says Indian bminton ace P V Sindhu, who has kept an empty in her trophy cabinet for top prize, which she hopes to claim in Tokyo Olympics next year. An Olympic silver medallist, PV Sindhu clinched historic World Championship gold at Basel after beating Japan's zomi Okuhara 21-7 21-7 in her third successive final.

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Faltering at final hurdle

Before that historic day, 24-year-old Indian faced criticism for losing in finals of major events such as Rio Games, World Championships (2017, 2018), 2017 Dubai Super Series Finals, 2018 Commonwealth Games and Jakarta Asian Games. "It (World Championships gold) takes care of all those losses. People have been talking about my final phobia, how I take pressure in finals and I can saI gave answer with my racquet," Sindhu, who has been recommended for Pma Bhushan, told PTI in an interview."But Olympics is a completely different feeling. Rio (Games) and World Championship gave me different memories, but, yeah, one gold medal is missing, so definitely I will work hard for that and would love to see myself win that Olympic gold at Tokyo.

"re is a vacant (laughs) in my cabinet for that gold. Olympic qualification is on and this win will give me confidence to go furr."

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Path to Tokyo 2020 

Sindhu, however, says path to Tokyo Olympic gold will be a tough one as w her opponents will look to exploit her weaknesses and she will need to d something new to her game to achieve success. "(Rio) 2016 was my first Olympics and body knew me much. I was just one of players but after Rio, everything changed and w after world championship, everybody will try and learn new things. I should also learn new things in each tournament because people will have some kind of strategy for me," she said. "I have been working with Kim. She h some changes for me and it helped me. But w I have to learn few new things. I need to work on net-play." Ranked fifth in World currently, Sindhu has virtually sealed her Olympic qualification. A higher ranking will help her avoid meeting top players when draw is me at Tokyo Games but Sindhu said she is unfazed about standings."Ranking matters because draw depends on it but I don't really think about it because if I can play well, it will come up. At end of day, you will have to beat se top players again to achieve gold," she said."Next for me is China, so focusing on that," said Hyderabi, who is taking part in China Open (September 17) and Korea Open (September 24) in next two weeks. While Sindhu and Saina Nehwal have put Indian bminton on top, re is a dearth of quality women's singles players in country beyond m. On wher she is concerned about lack of women's singles players, Sindhu said: "Well, after me and Saina, re is a little bit of gap. re are some junior players but it will take time. It is t going to be easy."A lot of players from or countries are doing well at junior level wher it is Korea, Thailand or China. So I think it will take a few years till we have some players coming up."But y need to work hard. y have to be smart and be strong mselves about what y want," she signed off. 

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