Former world champion PV Sindhu is eyeing her first title at the Malaysia Masters to end her two-year drought. The Indian No. 1 women's singles shuttler said she will take one match at a time after beating Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland 21-17, 21-16 in the first round.
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00:00 Crowd support just now, how was the crowd support?
00:03 Yeah, I mean crowd support is always good in Malaysia, a lot of fans.
00:08 I think they've played the Thomas and Uba Cup, I didn't play that and I choose to play this.
00:12 So, yeah, I mean it's every individual's choice at the end of the day to what to play and what not
00:18 because it depends on their physically how they are, mentally how they are, are they at their 100% or not.
00:25 So it depends on that as well, so it's every individual's choice at the end of the day.
00:30 Top players are not playing or the top players are playing, at the end of the day you have to face everyone.
00:35 And I mean there are good players, like anything can happen any moment.
00:40 It's not that the top ranked player is at the top every time and a lower ranked player cannot win against the top players,
00:46 it's never like that, anything can happen any moment.
00:49 So Sindhu, do you feel you have a good chance to win the title?
00:52 Well, I think it depends on just one match at a time for me and yeah, I mean hoping to win the tournament
00:59 but just focusing on the next round at the moment.
01:01 It's been a while since you won a title, do you feel winning this will give you like a confidence boost ahead of the Olympics?
01:07 Definitely yes, it will definitely give me a lot of boost but the most important thing is you know,
01:12 in every match if you give your 100% and if you do well, I think you will automatically get your confidence back.
01:18 Looking forward to the Olympics, yes we have a couple of tournaments now and it's just like we are in May now
01:24 and June, July is just like really right at the corner.
01:27 So it's obviously very important to be at the top level at the time of Olympics and give 100%
01:35 because everybody is going to be at their highest level at that point.
01:39 So obviously hoping for a medal but yeah, let's see.
01:42 So, you are playing in so many Olympics, this time how do you see the changes and the women's singles competition?
01:48 Well, competition is definitely very very high, it is not easy, it is very very competitive
01:53 and almost I think top 1 to 10, 15 players are of same standard.
01:58 So yeah, I mean even though it is my third Olympics, I think every time it keeps changing because you know,
02:04 it comes once in 4 years and the level of plays is different, the players are different.
02:09 So the competition is definitely high for the Paris 2024.
02:14 For more information, visit www.paris.fr
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