PV Sindhu created history as she became first Indian to win BWF World Championships gold by beating Japanese shuttler zomi Okuhara 21-7 21-7 in a lop-sided final on Sunday. 

Sporting fraternity hail PV Sindhu

After PV Sindhu created history by clinching World Championship gold, members from sporting fraternity came forward to congratulate silver medalist of Rio Olympics 2016. y included likes of VVS Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, and Saina Nehwal. 

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VVS Laxman came forward and wrote that that PV Sindhu h shown great exhibition of skill, fitness and mental strength to defeat Japan’s Okuhara in such an emphatic fashion. Laxman n ded that he was proud of shuttler. 

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Harbhajan Singh took to social media and congratulated PV Sindhu and urged her to keep inspiring. 

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PV Sindhu's fellow athlete Saina Nehwal, who is also her fierce rival appreciated young shuttler after her incredible achievement. Taking to micro-blogging site, Saina Nehwal congratulated PV Sindhu for becoming first-ever player to win World Championship gold medal for India. 

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Bminton Association of India (BAI) President Himanta Biswa Sarma has anunced cash awards of Rs. 20 lakh for new world champion PV Sindhu and Rs.5 lakh for bronze medalist Sai Praneet for ir historic performance at World Championships 2019 in Basel, Switzerland.

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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