Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has congratulated P.\nV. Sindhu. \u201cThe stupendously talented P. V. Sindhu makes India proud again!\nCongratulations to her for winning the Gold at the BWF World Championships. The\npassion and dedication with which she\u2019s pursued badminton is inspiring. PV Sindhu\u2019s\nsuccess will inspire generations of players\u201d, the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the win, Sindhu now has a full set of medals at World\nChampionships – two bronze medals, two silver medals and a gold medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After losing the last two finals, Sindhu finally won gold\nand at the post-match interview said that she is “proud to be an\nIndian”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I lost in the last two finals and this win was very\nimportant for me. I want to thank the crowd for supporting me every time,”\nSindhu said after the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I won for my country and I am very proud to be an\nIndian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A big thanks to my coach Miss Kim and Gopi sir and the\nentire support staff. I also want to dedicate this to my parents and especially\nmy mom, it’s her birthday today. So, happy birthday mom.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sindhu’s gold is the second medal that India won at the\nWorlds this year with Sai Praneeth winning a bronze in men’s singles category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last time Sindhu and Okuhara met in a World\nChampionships final was in 2017. In a pulsating encounter that lasted nearly\ntwo hours and involved a 73-shot rally, Okuhara emerged victorious in the end.\nSindhu again reached the final in 2018, only to go down to Carolina Marin of\nSpain. However, she finally broke the jinx this time, brushing aside her\nopponent with a dominant show from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In stark contrast to world No. Sindhu, the Japanese world\nNo. 4 on Sunday looked completely at sea against the Indian star’s relentless\nattacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although Okuhara won the first point of the first game,\nSindhu won eight straight points after that to race to a 8-1 lead. Okuhara\nmanaged just one more point before the interval with Sindhu leading 11-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mauling continued for much of the second period of the\nopener, which ended in just 16 minutes. Okuhara got a few consecutive points\ntowards the end to extend her score to 7 but Sindhu sealed the issue on her\nfirst game point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the second game, Okuhara briefly kept pace until the\nscore was 3-2 in Sindhu’s favour after which the Indian took six consecutive\npoints to race to a 9-2 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Okuhara won two more points but Sindhu kept her foot on the\npedal and went into the interval with a 11-4 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Okuhara went on to take just three more points in the second\nperiod as Sindhu continued to storm her way to the title. Once again, she\nmanaged to get over the line on her first match point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was the 16th match between Sindhu and Okuhara. Sindhu\nnow leads 9-7 head-to-head, including three victories in the last five meetings\nbefore Sunday’s clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both players had not won a title this year. While Okuhara\nreached the final after a hard-fought 17-21, 21-18, 21-15 win against\nThailand’s Ratchanok Intanon, Sindhu swatted aside China’s Chen Yu Fei 21-7,\n21-14 in her semifinal clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is Sindhu’s fifth medal at the World Championships,\nwhich is the joint highest in women’s singles in the history of the tournament\nalong with Xhang Ning of China, a two-time Olympic gold medallist. Apart from\nthe two silvers, Sindhu won in the last two editions, she had also won the\nbronze in 2013 and 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PV Sindhu became the first Indian to win the BWF World Championships, crushing Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in just 38 minutes in a one-sided final. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has congratulated P. V. Sindhu. \u201cThe stupendously talented P. V. Sindhu makes India proud again! Congratulations to her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[601],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-bwf-world-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}