Follow us on: RNI No. APENG/2018/764698 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 Published From OPINION 6 TOLLYWOOD 11 SPORTS 12 VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL OLD IS ADDALA'S DRY RUN ENDS STOKES KEEPS RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR STILL GOLD AS RAM OKAYS SCRIPT ASHES ALIVE RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *Late City Vol. 1 Issue 301 VIJAYAWADA, MONDAY AUGUST 26, 2019; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable PRODUCERS WERE NOT CASTING ME BECAUSE I AM SHEER BAD LUCK { Page 9 } www.dailypioneer.com Hail the shuttle queen! SRIDHAR K PENNA On top of the world n HYDERABAD Like millions of people from all over, those from the sports fra- Sindhu becomes first Indian to win World Championships ternity, including legends, tend to be extremely superstitious. PNS n BASEL (SWITZERLAND) to extend her score to 7 but PV Sindhu is no exception to YS Jaganmohan Sindhu sealed the issue on her the rule. Her fans, of which Ace shuttler P.V. Sindhu on Reddy (@ysjagan) first game point. In the second there is no dearth, are more so. Sunday became the first Indian game, Okuhara briefly kept pace Their 'third time' lucky prayers to win the BWF World Historical Victory! until the score was 3-2 in were answered by Sindhu, Championships, crushing Japan's Congratulations @Pvsindhu1 Sindhu's favour after which the whose obsessively aggressive Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in for becoming the first Indian to Indian took six consecutive 38-minute massacre helped end just 36 minutes in a one-sided win the gold medal at points to race to a 9-2 lead. an Indian jinx and won her the final. Sindhu's gold is the second Okuhara won two more points elusive World Championship medal that India won at the #BWFWorldChampionships. but Sindhu kept her foot on the title. Incidentally, Sunday's BWF Worlds this year with Sai Dominated right from the start pedal and went into the interval World Badminton In a way, with the latest triumph she has actually Praneeth winning a bronze in and finished like a true with a 11-4 lead. Championships success at Basel broken though the silver jinx that haunted her no end. men's singles category. The last champion Okuhara went on to take just is her first title this season. A She had to rest content with a second best finish at the time Sindhu and Okuhara met in three more points in the second brilliant start, so to say. a World Championships period as Sindhu continued to For sheer audacity and dom- 2016 Rio Games, Gold Coast Commonwealth Games final was in 2017. In stark contrast to world No. storm her way to the title. Once inant performance, it was awe- Down Under and the Asian Games in Jakarta a pulsating Sindhu, the Japanese world No. again, she managed to get over some when taken under any encounter that last- 4 on Sunday looked completely the line on her first match point. yardstick. The first Indian, male ed nearly two at sea against the Indian star's This was the 16th match or female, to effectively pene- champion missed this year's edi- In hindsight, although it was hours and relentless attacks. between Sindhu and Okuhara. trate the impregnable Chinese tion. a historic first from the Indian involved a 73- Although Okuhara won the Sindhu now leads 9-7 head-to- Wall time and again, the 24- It is a remarkable irony that point of view, there is an over- shot rally, first point of the first game, head, including three victories in year-old toyed with her Japanese Sindhu after two bronze (2013, whelming feeling in the circles Okuhara Sindhu won eight straight points the last five meetings before opponent Nozomi Okuhara, 2014) and an equal number of that this has been achieved a tad emerged after that to race to a 8-1 lead. Sunday's clash. who had no clue to the thun- silver, Sindhu's fifth medal in too late. There are reasons for victorious Okuhara managed just one more Both players had not won a derous stroke-play that hit her. badminton's crème de la crème such conclusions as the lanky in the end. point before the interval with title this year. While Okuhara Sindhu's ruthless annihilation event, after the All England, puts Indian was always expected to Sindhu Sindhu leading 11-2. reached the final after a hard can be gauged from the lopsided her in the illustrious company scale exalted summits like the again The mauling continued for fought 17-21, 21-18, 21-15 win 21-7, 21-7 verdict that brought of China's Xhang Ning, as the All England, Olympics and the reached the much of the second period of the against Thailand's Ratchanok an anti-climax to the much- only two in its history to pock- Worlds, quite earlier. final in 2018, opener, which ended in just 16 Intanon, Sindhu swatted aside hyped women's championship et five singles medals in the cov- Nonetheless, it is always better only to go down minutes. Okuhara got a few con- China's Chen Yu Fei 21-7, 21-14 clash. The win marks Sindhu's eted championship. late than never. to Carolina Marín secutive points towards the end in her semifinal clash. majestic way of settling scores In a way, with the latest tri- What stands her apart is that of Spain. with her old foe, who had con- umph she has actually broken unlike Saina Nehwal, she stayed However, she quered the Indian after a 110- though the silver jinx that loyal to her mentor, Pullela finally broke the N Chandrababu Naidu (@ncbn) minute marathon in 2017. The haunted her no end. She had to Gopichand, who can take par- jinx this time, My hearty congratulations to P.V. Sindhu for defending summit clash jinx haunted rest content with a second best ticular credit for making an brushing aside the Macau Grand Prix Gold trophy in women's singles. Proud of Sindhu last year when she failed finish at the 2016 Rio Games, astounding shuttler of the girl her opponent with to put it across an equally deter- Gold Coast Commonwealth who stands at 5'10''. a dominant show you. mined Carolina Marine. Games Down Under and the from start to finish. In Incidentally, the defending Asian Games in Jakarta. Continued on Page 4 MANN KI BAAT PM calls for Kodela booked Now, TG talks of four capital cities PNS n VIJAYAWADA not show interest in the con- movement struction of Amaravati. Instead, for diverting In a controversial statement on he hinted that Jagan might against plastic Sunday, Rajya Sabha Member T expedite the process of setting G Venkatesh stated that the up of four capital cities in the EC announces from Oct 2 House furniture YSRCP government was plan- four regions. While Venkatesh ning to have four capital cities has not made any negative n n Assembly PNS NEW DELHI PNS AMRAVATI Siva Prasada Rao is at Vizianagaram, Kakinada, comments on YSRCP or Jagan, Guntur and Kadapa. he made the remarks as if he Prime Minister Narendra Modi Former Assembly Speaker accused of illegally Speaking to The Pioneer, were disclosing a political secret. by-polls to on Sunday pitched for launch- Kodela Siva Prasad Rao and diverting the furniture Venkatesh said that the State The State is already in turmoil ing a "new mass movement" his son were late Saturday belonging to the Government was planning to set over Botsa's remarks over the four seats against single-use plastic from nigh booked by the police for government from up four Regional Development capital. Now, the latest statement PNS n NEW DELHI October 2, the birth anniver- allegedly diverting furniture Assembly premises to Boards and an equal number of He added that he had dis- Satyanarayana on the capital city by Venkatesh will plunge the sary of Mahatma Gandhi. In belonging to the Assembly to capital cities, which was pre- closed the matter to the BJP high of Amaravati. While Botsa State into further confusion The Election Commission his monthly radio address unauthorised places. unauthorized places and cisely the reason why Chief command but they had not stirred a hornet's nest by hint- and set off a new debate in polit- on Sunday announced by- 'Mann ki Baat', the prime min- A case against Siva Prasad to a private showroom Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy responded. His statement comes ing that the capital city may be ical circles. Meanwhile, Botsa at elections to one assembly ister said when the country Rao and his son Sivarama belonging to Sivaram had allotted Deputy Chief in the wake of the controversial shifted from Amaravati to else- a meeting in Vizinagram on seat each in Uttar Pradesh, observes the 150 birth anniver- Krishna was filed at Thullur Krishna Ministers posts to each of the remarks made by Municipal where, Venkatesh had opined Sunday yet again spoke in the Tripura, Chhattisgarh and sary of the Father of the Nation, police station in Guntur four regions in the State. Administration Minister Botsa that the Chief Minister might same language. Kerala. The bypolls for "we will launch a new mass district late on Dantewada (Chhattisgarh), movement against use of plas- Saturday on a com- ture belonging to Pala (Kerala), Badharghat tic". He also called for efforts to plaint filed by M the Assembly. Rao Bahrain pardons (Tripura) and Hamirpur ensure proper collection and Eswara Rao, an had earlier admit- (Uttar Pradesh) Assembly storage of plastic to save the officer of Andhra ted that while BJP's ‘TS Liberation Day’ bouncer on TRS seats will be held on environment.