P V Sindhu on Sunday turned into the first Indian to win badminton World Championships gold by beating opponent Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in a cut sided last Basel on Sunday.
The Indian won 21-7 21-7 in the summit conflict that endured only 38 minutes.
Two years subsequent to being burglarized off the gold by Okuhara in an epic 110-minute last at Glasgow that went down as perhaps the best fight in badminton history, Sindhu at long last exorcized the phantom of that tragic misfortune with a totally overwhelming success over a similar rival.
It was Sindhu’s fifth World Championships award – joint most for a lady singles player with previous Olympics and title holder Zhang Ning of China – to go with the two progressive silvers and two or three bronze decorations.
Sindhu has additionally won an Olympic silver in 2016 Rio Games, a silver at Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, an Asian Games silver at Jakarta and the BWF World Tour Finals a year ago.