Guts and Glory! – Singles Finals: HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2018
Finally, the step up from runner-up to champion was taken. Pusarla V Sindhu, after many a heartbreak, savoured her career’s biggest moment as she became the first Indian winner of the season finale at the HSBC BWF…
· DEV SUKUMAR
Finally, the step up from runner-up to champion was taken. Pusarla V Sindhu, after many a heartbreak, savoured her career’s biggest moment as she became the first Indian winner of the season finale at the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2018.
In the Men’s Singles it was Shi Yuqi’s day as the Chinese celebrated his own heroic hour, reversing the result of the World Championships final against Japan’s Kento Momota, 21-12 21-11.
Pusarla’s 21-19 21-19 triumph in the Women’s Singles final over Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara was special as it came at the end of a year in which she won no title, having stumbled at the final hurdle of four tournaments – including the TOTAL BWF World Championships and the Asian Games. That, combined with the fact that she was runner-up at the Rio Olympics 2016, the World Championships 2017 and the Dubai World Superseries Finals 2017, meant she was carrying heavy baggage into today’s final – against the player who beat her in the epic World Championships final in Glasgow last year.