Bollywood hails the gallant efforts of Olympic silver medalist PV Sindhu wining the silver World Badminton Championships.
Celebrations in B-town :
- PV Sindhu cruised into the final of the World Championship with an easy win over Chen Yufei of China,
- but failed to bring India the elusive gold medal from the World Badminton Championships as she
- lost her game to Japanese seventh seed Nozomi Okuhara in finals.
- But B-Town and Indians are proud of her efforts.
- Amitabh Bachchan took to his social media account and hailed the player for her gallant final.
- He wrote, “T 2529 – #Sindhu , #Pvsindhu1…you made India proud…you are a Champion…spirit, guts, endurance…for me you won…never gave up”
- Farhan Akhtar also tweeted about the win.
- He wrote, “Congratulations @Pvsindhu1 for winning silver. Extremely close contest that could have gone either way.
- Tough luck this time. Shine On.”
- Actress Shraddha Kapoor, who is working in biopic based on Indian female badminton player,
- also expressed her joy on social media. She wrote, “Incredible moment for India! Congratulations @NSaina & @Pvsindhu1 for bringing back the bronze & silver medals home. Well played #Okuhara!”
- Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (PV Sindhu) is an Indian professional badminton player.
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- At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal.
- She is one of the two Indian badminton players to ever win an Olympic medal – other being Saina Nehwal.