there were at least a hundred kids waiting eagerly to meet the badminton star at the ballroom of a star hotel in the city on wednesday evening in hushed voices they discussed questions they wanted to ask her and made plans to take selfies with her soon after the event in some time she walked in and everyone rose up in admiration seeing pv sindhuthe indian woman shuttler was in chennai for a promotional event she went straight on to the stage picked up the microphone and had just about greeted the audience and said shes happy to be back in the city that the young brigade started shooting questions at what age did you start playing badminton if not badminton what would you have become whos your inspiration the questions came flying by and she answered them all with a grin and there came another one tell us about your competitiveness with saina to which she replied shes a great player shes winning a lot of medals on court everybody wants to win you play against each player differently playing against saina is different from a match against okuhara or marin everybody has a different style of playing different strokes etc so you have to give your best on court and then they all scrambled around sindhu asking for selfies while she continued to speak to ussindhu who ended 2018 on a high by winning gold at the bwf world tour in december addressed the media next the gold at the world tour was sure a special one for she broke the jinx of losing in the finals also she became the first indian to bag a gold at the prestigious world tour now with the olympic games only a year away she said the preparations for that are steadily progressing before that there are a couple of tournaments in which ill participate so i am taking things step by step giving my best in each tournament as you all know the olympic qualification will start soon whats most important is to stay fit its not going to be easy and i know that i need to work harder the qualification period is going to be very crucial for all of us players and we need to be very keen in what we do how we play rectify the mistakes and come back stronger she saidtalking about the upcoming all england tournament she pointed out that the absence of carolina marin due to injury wont make it that easier for her there are many other good players top 10 to 15 players belong to the same standard all that matters is who plays better that particular day every day is not the same sometimes you give your 100 per cent and even more but sometimes you make unforced errors that might not be your day each match is tough youll have to play mentally and physically sometimes your mind might not work sometimes the strategies you