TIL Desk Sports/ Indian badminton great Prakash Padukone insists that P V Sindhu doesn’t have any mental block in major finals and urged the media to not put the star shuttler under pressure by focussing on her defeats. The former All England Champion backed Sindhu to win the World Championship crown soon after two consecutive silver medal performances in the prestigious event.
Sindhu lost the World Championship final to Spain’s Carolina Marin on Sunday, her third major final defeat. She had lost the Worlds final last year and the title clash of the 2016 Rio Olympics. She also finished runner-up in the Superseries Finals in Dubai last year.
“It is quite creditable that she reached the final again. The competition is very tough. She should aim for the gold next time. She beat two Japanese players (Okuhara and Yamaguchi) against whom she normally loses. Unfortunate that she could not do the same in the final,” said Padukone on the sidelines of PNB Metlife Junior Badminton Championship, in New Delhi, on Tuesday.
