Rio Olympics 2016: Indian shuttler PV Sindhu wins silver medal

Superstar Rajnikanth joined the parade of congratulating Sindhu and in a heart-warming gesture he declared himself a fan of the young player. This is also India’s first silver in Badminton at the Olympics.

This is India’s first silver Medal in Badminton. I didn t get really annoyed.

He also had a prediction to make, not just for India’s Olympics chances but also women’s empowerment.

PV Sindhu won a Silver medal for us in the Olympics and made us proud! The signs looked ominous for Sindhu as Marin got a flurry of points to open up a 11-2 lead at the interval.

Sindhu began to a nervous start as Marin took a 5-3 lead in the opening game. “She’s only 21, so I am sure that Sindhu will bring many more laurels to the country”.

The first game was a neck to neck one.

Sindhu s hard-fought silver was India s second medal of the Rio Olympics after female wrestler Sakshi Malik claimed bronze on Wednesday.

“I feel it would change a lot from now onwards”.

He wanted Sindhu to treat this like a victory and not the loss of a gold medal. On Sindhu’s way back, she picked up Carolina’s racquet which the elated gold-medallist had thrown in the air in excitement after she won the match point. I’ve been training hard and made so many sacrifices. This time though, the World No. 1 showed no signs of nerves and took the second game 21-12 to force the match into the decider.

Southpaw Marin has already won gold medals in the 2014 and 2015 World Championships, the 2014 and 2016 European Championships and the 2015 All England Championships.

Sindhu won the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold women’s singles title in January this year.

I’m a little Spaniard that broke the Asian world. I thought it’s anybody’s game and whoever does well would win it.

Coach Fernando Rivas and mind trainer Pablo del Rio had played a big part in building Carolina as a champion and she heartily thanked them for her achievement.