India’s top women’s singles player and favorite for the women’s singles gold medal in Birmingham, PV Sindhu has called upon players to focus on individual events after their loss to Malaysia in the mixed team event at the Commonwealth Games.
Although Sindhu won her women’s singles match, Kidambi Srikanth in men’s singles and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty and Tresa Jolly / Gayatri Gopichand in men’s doubles lost their respective matches. India Lost 1-3 to Malaysia.
Sindhu said that now the team competition is over, players should focus on individual events.
“Now that the team (event) is over, I think it is paramount to focus on the individuals now. I am hoping for the best, I am hoping for gold,” said Sindhu.
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When asked how she would try to uplift the team going into the individual matches, Sindhu said, “The individual is individual, so I think everyone should focus on themselves now. It’s a matter of going back and planning.” It’s time to build up and come back stronger. As a team, we did well but now we need to focus individually and make sure that we prepare ourselves, everyone has different matches It will happen, at different times, on different days. Therefore, it is important that players give their 100 per cent, no matter what,” said the Olympic silver medalist on Tuesday after the match against Malaysia.
Talking about Tuesday’s match, Sindhu said that she is a little sad about the gold medal.
“As a team I think it is a different experience, we all come together and play as a team. It is really good that today we got this silver medal.
When asked about the slight fall after losing seven points in a row and trailing 12-18, she said, “I should have controlled my mistakes in the first set because I was very comfortable and I was leading but I didn’t want to go ahead.” Gave him points consistently.. I was a little nervous but I still hoped it wouldn’t end and it’s good that I got that first set and it gave me confidence for the second set.
Sindhu said she was inspired by the senior women’s national cricket team which was present at the stands on Tuesday to cheer her up.
He said, “I could hear him cheering there and it definitely gave me a lot of boost in the match. I am very happy to see him here and I wish him all the best. I heard his coach saying that we should It would be great to meet them and I would be happy to meet them too.”
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