New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Anticipation is at its peak as the Paris Olympics are less than a month away and fans are hoping that ace shutterbug PV Sindhu will complete the hat-trick of medals at the quadrennial extravaganza.
However, Sindhu’s road to Paris has been a bumpy one as she failed to win any title last year after returning from a long injury. Meanwhile, she parted ways with her South Korean coach Park Tae-Sang and appointed Malaysian Hafiz Hashim, but they parted ways after six months, failing to achieve the desired results.
The string of disappointing results also saw Sindhu fall out of the top 10 in the world rankings. She slowly gained momentum and sealed a spot for her third consecutive Olympic Games after finishing 12th on the Race to Paris qualification list.
After qualifying for the Paris Games, Sindhu reached her first final in almost a year when she reached the summit clash at the Malaysia Masters last month, where she lost the title to China’s Wang Zhi Yi.
In a media interaction hailed by the Sports Authority of India, when asked how she coped with the challenging phase where she was not at her best, Sindhu shared that it is important to “learn from mistakes, move on from what happened and come back stronger”.
“Look, I think there are matches where sometimes you can be leading and other times you can end up losing. That happened to me at the Malaysian Masters. It’s not that I wasn’t in good shape, but I played as well as I could. And sometimes you’re leading and it happens and it’s okay. I think it’s important.
“For me, when I lose a match or when another competition is coming up, I think it is important to learn from mistakes, come back stronger and put what has happened behind me and focus on the next tournament,” Sindhu responded to an IANS query.
“I mean, everyone knows each other’s game. It’s just that on that day, whoever plays well and gives his best is the winner. So what happened at the Malaysia Masters I know is a little sad, I could have gotten that victory. I was leading 11-3, it’s just a matter of those 11 points and I would have won the championship, but I felt like it just wasn’t my day because I tried my best and it didn’t work. But it’s okay, I’ve learned a lot from some mistakes…” he added.
In January, Sindhu also shifted her base from Hyderabad to Bengaluru to be close to her new mentor Prakash Padukone ahead of Paris 2024 and began training with her new Indonesian coach Agus Santoso.
Santoso has previous coaching experience in India. He coached Indian singles players including Kidambi Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth in 2020 and 2021, and was part of the Indian badminton contingent for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
“I have been playing with Agus since January, obviously, a few months ago and so far it has been good. It definitely takes time for a coach and an athlete to understand each other. So we have been working on that and Agus has already been to India for the men’s (singles) tournament so he knows how it works. It is the first time Agus and I have worked together and it has been a lot of fun,” Sindhu said.
“It’s been good. Everything has been going well and I think we have a lot more time, especially when I was injured and when he was here. We have a lot more time on the pitch or discussing the games or whatever. So right now the relationship with coach Agus has been really good. He’s been a very experienced coach. So things are working well and I hope they will work well in the future as well,” he added.
Sindhu is currently training in Saarbrucken, Germany, at Hermann-Neuberger, to prepare for the Paris Olympics. She will be there for over a month along with her coach and support staff before heading to the French capital.
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