CWG 2022: Former international badminton player from India Trupti Murgunde has high hopes from Indian shuttler PV Sindhu at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Sindhu has been carrying India’s flag at badminton in multi games event for quite sometime now. Murgunde believes Sindhu has it in her to win a gold medal and once again bring laurels to the country.
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Sindhu has always been at his menacing best when it comes to representing India at big-ticket events. Her impressive resume includes bronze and silver medals at Olympics. Besides, she has five World Championships medals, including one gold in 2019. However, she is yet to win gold in the singles competition at CWG.
She won bronze and silver in the last two editions. Will she be lucky at Birmingham? With the superpower house of world badminton, including China and Japan, not present in the Commonwealth Games, it provides a wonderful opportunity for Sindhu to attain his first gold.
CWG 2022: Ex-shuttler Trupti Murgunde confident of PV Sindhu winning a medal at Commonwealth Games, says ‘she has a good chance to win the gold in Birmingham’
PV Sindhu Gold Medals Show (only singles competition)
- 2019 World Championships
- 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games
- 2012 Asian Junior Championships
“Of course, in the women’s singles, Sindhu is doing very well at the moment. Considering his potential competition for the CWG, she has a good chance to win the gold,” Murgunde told InsideSport.
Murgunde confident of good show in men’s singles: Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen have been delivering the goods in the last few months.
The duo will represent India in the singles competition. Murgunde is hoping for an all-India final, which will help them secure both the gold and silver in the men’s singles.
“In the men’s singles, if everything goes well, we can have an all-India final too with Lakshya and Kidambi Srikanth. That would be great,” she said.
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