pv sindhu paris olympics 2024: Indian badminton star PV Sindhu will try her best to create history by winning a medal in the third consecutive Olympic Games. She has practiced hard in different ways in the last few months to achieve this goal. Sindhu won silver in the Rio Olympics and bronze in the Tokyo Olympics. If she succeeds in reaching the podium in the Paris Olympics, then she will become the first Indian player to complete a hat-trick of medals.
29-year-old Sindhu has not been in form for some time, but she said that spending the last 8 months with Prakash Padukone has boosted her confidence and she is ready to win her third consecutive medal. Badminton matches will start from July 27 in the Paris Olympics.
Sindhu said at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, ‘Of course, winning a medal is my goal. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first or second or third. I have won two medals and I don’t want to put pressure on myself by thinking about the third medal.’
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She said, ‘Whenever I participate in the Olympics, it is a new Olympics for me. So whenever I play in the Olympics, my goal is to win a medal. Hopefully, I will complete a hat-trick soon.’
Before coming to Paris, Sindhu practiced at Sportcampus Saar in Saarbrucken, Germany, where the altitude, weather and conditions are similar to the French capital. To acclimatize to the conditions, she created a hypoxic chamber (low oxygen) in her room and slept there for a few days. Hypoxic chambers help prepare the player’s body to play at high altitudes.
Sindhu said, ‘I could not go to a place with high altitude for practice. I did not have much time and hence I thought that it would be better to create such conditions here rather than going somewhere else.’
The star Indian player said that she has improved her strokes and is performing better than before in long rallies. When Sindhu was asked what difference she felt after practicing with Padukone, she said, “There is a lot more confidence in the strokes. Women’s singles now has very long rallies and long duration matches and I have prepared myself for them.”
He said, ‘You have to adopt a different style against each opponent and it is necessary to play the right stroke at the right time. Prakash sir emphasized on this and we worked on it. There has been a lot of improvement. You will see this on the court.’
Sindhu will get tough competition from these shuttlers
Sindhu’s first big challenge will come in the Round of 16, when she will face China’s He Bingjiao, her opponent in the Tokyo Olympics bronze medal match. Bingjiao was easily defeated by Sindhu 21-13, 21-15 in that match. However, Bingjiao won her previous match against Sindhu in the 2022 Asian Games. Talking about head to head, Bingjiao has a record of 11-9 against Sindhu.
If Sindhu defeats Bingjiao and reaches the quarterfinals, she will face Chinese player Chen Yufei (unless there is a major upset). The Indian superstar has not lost a match to any Chinese shuttler in the Olympics and World Championships, but Yufei is in great form. The reigning Olympic champion won the Indonesia Open earlier this month, defeating world number-1 An Seyang in the final. Sindhu and Yufei have won 6-6 matches against each other so far.
In the semi-finals, Sindhu may face Spanish veteran Carolina Marin, who has always been her strong opponent. Sindhu’s record against Marin is not good, in which she is behind 5-12. This same Marin defeated Sindhu in the final of the 2016 Olympics.