PV Sindhu had to settle for the bronze medal during the semifinal match of the Badminton Asia Championships in April due to 'human error.'
A lot of ranking points will be up for grabs at the USD 400,000 Super 500 tournament which is being held in the looming shadows of a raging third wave of the pandemic in the country with cases rising at a rapid speed, fueled by the new Omicron variant.
While the CWG is set to be held in Birmingham in July-August, the Asian Games is scheduled in Hagzhou, China in September.
Sindhu had revealed in an interview that coach Pullela Gopichand took away her phone and prohibited her from eating ice cream during the Rio 2016 Olympics.
PV Sindu became the first Indian to be crowned world champion in badminton after she defeated Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in Basel to win the title.
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