Sindhu’s bronze big achievement for me, says coach

TIL Desk Sports/ India’s foreign badminton coach Park Tae-Sang is extremely pleased that the multiple sessions spent to hone P V Sindhu’s defensive skills in the run-up to the Olympics paid rich dividends as she claimed a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.

Sindhu, a 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist, on Sunday, beat World No. 9 Bing Jiao of China in the bronze play-off to become only the second Indian and the country’s first woman to win two Olympic medals. Park had worked a lot on Sindhu’s defence and motion skills in the run-up to the Olympics and he said the hard work paid off.

“For Sindhu defence has been a weakness, there is no problem with her attack. Every player, every coach knows that and today her defence was 200%. It was superb. In fact, the entire tournament, barring yesterday, she has been very good in defence,” Park told.