Indian shuttler PV Sindhu announces retirement? Here’s the truth

Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu on Monday left everybody without warning by posting the phrase ‘I retire’ in her latest put up on her social media deal with. 

The 25-year-old Rio Olympic silver-medallist took to her official Twitter account and surprised her followers by writing that the Denmark Open was the ultimate straw and that she has determined to bid adieu to the sport. 

“I have been thinking about coming clean with my feelings for a while now. I admit I have been struggling to deal with it. It just feels so wrong, you know. That’s why I’, writing today to tell you that I’m done. It’s undertandable if you’re shocked or confused but by the time you finish reading this you would have learnt about my point of view, and hopefully, will support it too,” Sindhu wrote in a prolonged put up.

“This pandemic has been an eye-opener for me. I could train hard to fight the toughest of opponents, tooth and nail, right till the final shot of the game. I have done it before, I can do it again. But how do I defeat this invisible virus that has the entire world in a fix? It has been months at home and we still question ourselves every time we step out. Internalizing all this and reading about so many heart-breaking stories online has got me to question a lot about myself and this world we live in. Not being able to represent India in the Denmark Open was the last straw,”Sindhu added.

However, Sindhu later acknowledged in her cryptic tweet that she should have given her followers a mini heart-attack, however  she shouldn’t be retiring from the sport and reasonably needs to attract everybody’s consideration in the direction of the combat in opposition to substandard hygiene amid coronavirus pandemic.

“Today, I choose to retire from this current sense of unrest. I retire from this negativity, the constant fear, the uncertainty, I choose to retire from a complete lack of control over the unknown.Most importantly, I choose to retire from substandard hygiene standards and our lackadaisical attitude towards the virus. We must not digress; we need to be better prepared. We must defeat this virus together. The choices we make today will define our future and the future of the next generation. We cannot afford to let them down,” Sindhu clarified.

“I may have given you guys a mini-heart attack; unprecedented times requires unprecedented measures. I guess I needed to get you guys sit up and take notice. That being said, we must be hopeful about the light shining at the end of the tunnel. Yes, Denmark Open didn’t happen but that won’t stop me from training. When life comes at you, one must come back twice as hard. So will I for the Asia Open. I refuse to give up without putting up a solid fight. I refuse to give up without conquering this fear. And will carry on doing so till we have a safer world,” the star Indian shuttler concluded.

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— Pvsindhu (@Pvsindhu1) November 2, 2020

Earlier, Sindhu had pulled out of the Denmark Open, which happened from October 13 to October 18,2020, owing to well being and security issues amid coronavirus crises. She is now wanting ahead to return to the sport with Asia Open, which is slated to happen in January 2021.

Born on July 5, 1995 in Hyderabad, Sindhu stepped into the worldwide area in 2009 with the Sub-Junior Asian Badminton Championships in Colombo, the place she bagged a bronze medal. It was Sindhu’s first-ever worldwide medal beneath the steerage of Gopichand. 

In 2013, Sindhu lifted her first Grand Prix gold after sweeping apart Gu Juan of Singapore within the summit showdown of the Malaysian Open. She continued her momentum on the BWF World Championships later in that 12 months to accept a bronze medal. Later in the identical 12 months, the Indian shuttler clinched Macau Open Grand Prix medal moreover being awarded the Arjuna Award, one of many highest honours for any sportsperson within the nation.

A 12 months later, Sindhu created historical past by turning into the primary Indian shuttler to win a medal on the BWF World Championships for 2 consecutive years. She as soon as once more settled for the bronze in 2014. Sindhu additionally appeared for the primary time on the Commonwealth Games in the identical 12 months and made a semi-final end on the event. 

It was in 2016 that the Indian shuttler grew to become the first-ever feminine athlete from the nation to clinch a silver medal on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Sindhu, who was additionally conferred with Padma Shri award in the identical 12 months, went down in opposition to the then world primary Carolina Marin of Spain within the closing of the Olympics Games. 

Sindhu additionally participated on the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast and completed her marketing campaign on the event with a gold within the combined group occasion and a silver medal within the girls’s singles occasion.

In 2019, Sindhu grew to become  the first-ever participant from the nation to win a BWF World Championships gold on the 2019 version of the distinguished event in Basel, Switzerland. It was Sindhu’s fifth medal on the World Championships, thus making her the joint-highest medal-winner in historical past of the ladies’s singles occasion of the event together with two-time Olympic gold medallist Zhang Ning of China.