PV Sindhu gifts top-quality badminton racket to Kiren Rijiju | Badminton News

NEW DELHI: Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist PV Sindhu on Monday gifted a leading-high-quality badminton racket to Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju.
Rijiju uploaded a online video on his Twitter account in which Sindhu can be found gifting a racket to him. The shuttler also taught the Minister how to wrap the racket manage grip.
“Massive honour for sports activities fraternity as @Pvsindhu1 is conferred with Padma Bhushan Award for her achievements in sporting activities for India. Congratulations !!Thank you Sindhu for gifting me best high-quality badminton rackets & also for teaching me how to wrap the racket tackle grip,” tweeted Rijiju.

President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday conferred the Padma Bhushan, the country’s 3rd-optimum civilian award, to India’s ace badminton participant PV Sindhu.
President Kovind offered the Padma Awards 2020 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The Padma Awards are a person of the greatest civilian honours of India announced on a yearly basis on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are specified in 3 groups: Padma Vibhushan (for exceptional and distinguished assistance), Padma Bhushan (distinguished provider of greater get) and Padma Shri (distinguished company). The award seeks to understand achievements in all fields of pursuits or disciplines where by an ingredient of community services is concerned.
“It is a very pleased second. I am very thankful to the Government of India, all of the ministers and President sir for providing me this award. I am extremely pretty happy, these sorts of awards give us a good deal of encouragement, aid and inspiration to do substantially superior in the coming long run,” PV Sindhu advised ANI following acquiring the Padma Bhushan award.
“Definitely I would get the job done challenging and give my most effective. I have some future tournaments, so I hope I do nicely and give my greatest in them,” she added.
Sindhu has presently been the receiver of Padam Shri in 2015, India’s fourth-optimum civilian award and maximum sporting honour of India, Khel Ratna award in 2016.
Write-up Rio 2016 silver medal, Sindhu went on to win medals at equally the 2018 Commonwealth Online games and Asian Online games. In 2019, she became the initial Indian to gain the Globe Badminton Championships beating Nozomi Okuhara in the finals.
In 2021, Sindhu took a giant leap as she etched her title in the sporting heritage of the state soon after she clinched the bronze medal in the women’s singles levels of competition at Tokyo 2020. With that bronze, Sindhu became the very first female from India to become a double Olympic medallist.
The reigning planet champion defeated He Bing Jiao of China 21-13, 21-15 for the badminton women’s singles bronze at Tokyo 2020.
PV Sindhu was very last seen on courtroom in Oct when she crashed out of the French Open up 2021 just after losing to Japan’s Sayaka Takahashi in the semi-finals.