No match, no problem for PV Sindhu

PV Sindhu. Pic/Getty Images

The lack of competitions before the Olympics is a major concern for Indian shuttlers, but not so much for PV Sindhu, who trusts her Korean coach Park Tae Sang to create match situations for her in training itself. Owing to the raging Covid-19 pandemic, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) has been forced to cancel the remaining three Olympic qualifiers in India, Malaysia and Singapore before the Tokyo Games in July-August.

Park Tae Sang

Asked if cancellations will affect her preparations, Sindhu said: "Well, we were thinking that Singapore will be the last event before Olympics but now we don't have another option, so I am playing matches against different players and my coach Park is trying to create match situations for me in training. "Different players have different styles like Tai Tzu [Ying] or Ratchanok [Intanon] have different styles of play but Park is there to guide me, to prepare me for it," said Sindhu.

"Obviously, we will be playing each other after a few months and there will be something new in our games, so I will have to prepare for that," said Sindhu , who doesn't train with rest of the India's Olympic-bound team. She has been training at the Gachibowli indoor stadium in Telangana and does her fitness training at Suchitra academy.

Sindhu, 25, endorsed BWF's decision to cancel the events, saying while it is sad that competitions could not take place but life is more important than sports. "It is sad that the whole world has come to a standstill but before sportspersons, we are human beings and life comes first," Sindhu said.

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