Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu on Monday defeated Michelle Li of Canada in the final badminton match of women’s singles at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
PV Sindhu beat Michelle Li by 21-15, 21-13 to bag the gold medal for India.
This is the first-ever Commonwealth Games singles gold of Sindhu’s career.
Sindhu won the final badminton match at the Commonwealth Games in straight two games by 21-15, 21-13.
“Yes, I have completed a full cycle of medals and I am really happy about winning this medal,” Sindhu said to NDTV.
She went on to say: “If you ask me where I will place this medal, well it will be somewhere in the middle of those (Olympic medals), because playing for the country and representing the country means a lot to me, so this medal will mean a lot me and I will cherish it.”
