Pusarla Venkata Sindhu was born on 5th july 1995 is an Indian professional Indian badminton player.Having made her international debut in 2009,she rose to a career high ranking of no. 2 in April 2017.Over the course of her career,pusarla has won medals at numerous tournaments on the BDF circuit including a gold at the 2019 world championships

Pusarla came to international attention when she broke into the top 20 of the BDF world ranking in september 2012 at the age of 17.Beginning in 2013,pusarla won a medal at every world championships with the exeption of 2015.She is just the second women of the Zhang Ning to win 5 or more medals at the world championships.Pusarla represented india at the 2016 summer olympics,becoming the first indian badminton player to reach a final.She won the silver medal after losing out to spains Carolina Marin.

Pusarla won her first superseries title at the 2016 China open and followed it up with four more finals in 2017,winning the titles in Korea and India.In addition to that,she has won a silver medal each at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Asian Games,and two Bronze medals at the Uber Cup.

With earnings of US$8.5 million and $5.5 million respectively,pusarla made the forbes list of Highest paid female Athletes in 2018 and 2019.She is the recipient of the sports honour Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,and Indians fourth highest civilian award,The Padma Shri.