PV Sindhu recalls sustaining knee injury during 2023 French Open tournament on First Sports show

Not long ago, ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu was on top of the world in women’s badminton. In 2017, Sindhu had achieved her career-best BWF ranking of World No 2, and a couple of years later in 2019, Sindhu would go onto beat Nozomi Okuhara to clinch a historic BWF World Championships title. And while Sindhu did reach the quarter-finals of the Asian Games in Hangzhou recently, where she lost to He Bingjiao, the Hyderabad shuttler suffered an injury setback during the French Open in October. Sindhu was playing against Thailand’s Supanida Katethong in the pre-quarterfinals of the French Open, and had taken the first game 21-18. However, early in the second game, Sindhu suffered an injury to her knee, and after consultation with her coach and physio, Sindhu was forced to withdraw from the contest. Sindhu recalled the moment she sustained the injury and how she felt she was unable to play further.

“I was playing in France against Supanida from Thailand. It was the pre-quarterfinals. In the first game, everything was going on well. In the end, I think at 18-20, I hard a sound in my knee, maybe it was just normal, sand I continued to play the rally. I won the first game. Of course, when I obviously changed courts, I was feeling a bit uncomfortable, I didn’t know what was happening,” Sindhu said during the Mic-Up segment of the First Sports show hosted by Rupha Ramani.