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#3 Sindhu becomes first Indian to reach Olympics and World Championships finals
A year after her stupendous success at the Rio Olympics, PV Sindhu etched her name on the annals of Indian badminton by becoming the first shuttler from the country to reach the summit clash of both the Olympic Games and the World Championships.
Last year in August, the world was mesmerized by her run in Brazil when she accounted for some of the biggest names in the sport such as Tai Tzu Ying, Wang Yihan and Nozomi Okuhara to reach the title showdown. She was ultimately stopped by the two-time world champion Carolina Marin, who needed three games to prevail over the Indian.
That performance proved as the springboard of success for Sindhu, who took it further exactly 12 months later at the World Championships by making it to the final for the first time with a comfortable 21-13, 21-10 win over reigning world junior champion Chen Yufei.
