FAMOUS BADMINTON PLAYERS
1. SAINA NEHWAL
She was born on 17 March 1990 in Hisar, Hyderabad. She is an Indian professional badminton singles player. A former world no. 1, she has won over 24 international titles, which includes eleven Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009. She is the second Indian player after Prakash Padukone to achieve this feat. Nehwal has achieved several milestones in badminton for India. She is the only Indian to have won at least one medal in every BWF major individual event, namely the Olympics, the BWF World Championships, and the BWF World Junior Championships. She is the first Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal, the first Indian to have reached the final of the BWF World Championships, along with being the only Indian to have won the BWF World Junior Championships.
2. PV SINDHU
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, known as PV Sindhu, is an Indian professional badminton player and the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal. She was born on July 5, 1995, in Hyderabad. Sindhu is also one of the two Indian badminton players to ever win an Olympic medal, the other being Saina Nehwal. The ace shuttler came to international attention when she broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Ranking in September 2012 at the age of 17 and has featured in the top 10 of the world rankings, for most parts of her career.
3. ARPANA POPAT
Aparna Popat was born on 18 January 1978 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She is a former Indian badminton player. She was India's national champion for a record-equaling nine times when she won all the senior national championships between 1997 and 2006. Aparna captured her first Senior National title at Hyderabad in 1997. She went on to win the Senior National title till 2006, thereby equaling the Prakash Padukone's record of winning nine consecutive national singles titles. She won her last of the nine Senior Nationals titles at the age of 27 after defeating the 15-year-old Saina Nehwal at Bangalore in January 2006. The highlights of her achievements at the international level are participation in 2 Olympic Games, 1 Asian Games, a silver medal at the World Junior Championships in 1996 and 4 medals in 3 Commonwealth Games appearances. She reached a career-high world ranking of 16.
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