The 24-year-old shuttler hardly put a foot wrong in the match and silenced her critics in style. With this win, the debate around her big match ‘jinx’ will finally be resolved at least for the near future.

Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu has now become the first Indian badminton player ever to win a gold medal at the BWF World Championships as she defeated Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in straight games. Third time lucky Sindhu is also now the joint-most successful women’s singles player in this world tournament, having won as many as 5 medals in 6 appearances.

Sindhu’s inability to win crunch situations in a match had denied her many gold medals in the past. Her defeats in finals of major tournaments had become a major talking point. However, the 24-year-old shuttler hardly put a foot wrong in the match and silenced her critics in style. With this win, the debate around her big match ‘jinx’ will finally be resolved at least for the near future.

The 5th seed Sindhu not only won the gold but she did it in a dominating style, winning the final in straight games 21-7 21-7. The match was being seen as a repeat of the 2017 final which was played between the same opponents. However, as it turned out, both the matches were quite interesting in nature.