Eboni Williams – Know her Better!

Eboni K. Williams is an American attorney, currently employed by the FOX News Channel where she serves in the capacity of a contributor and provides political and legal analysis as well as commentary on the biggest news stories in USA and the world. She also appears as a guest host frequently on the acclaimed talk radio station WABC 77 radio located in New York City. Williams also served in the role of a correspondent at the ABC News Network.

Williams started her career in the capacity of a law clerk at the Attorney General’s Office in the state of Louisiana. She credits her time at the legal firm as integral for the experience she gained while being employed there.  Today, Williams is considered a prominent television personality and a recognized attorney and is known for her work on the ‘Fox News Specialist Show’, of which she is a permanent co-hosts alongside Eric Bolling and Katherine Timpf

Early life and Education

Williams was born on 19 August, 1970 in North Carolina, United States of America, where she was also raised by a single mother. Williams stated that she also had siblings while growing up. Williams credits her mother for pushing her to gain a good education, which has helped her achieve things on her own merit. While her nationality is American, she is of African-American ethnicity.

Williams attended and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in the field of communications and African-American studies. She was also a student at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the university.

Career Rise

During her time at Law School, Williams served as a clerk for the Louisiana Secretary of State and worked at the Louisiana Attorney General’s office, while also assisting the council members of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit the city.

From 2008 onwards, Williams specialized in civil litigation and family law and served as a legal councillor for various high-profile divorce cases, spousal support and also child custody cases. She gradually transitioned into the role of a public defender and represented clients who were victims of homicide, drugs, sex crimes, rapes and several federal offence cases. However, she but also continued her private practice, fighting cases in the capacity of a defence lawyer in the state of North Carolina as well as Los Angeles.

Williams served as correspondent at ABC news as well as a Fox News contributor, making appearances on shows such as ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ and ‘Hannity’, and even co-hosted the shows ‘The Five’ and ‘Outnumbered’. She currently serves as a co-host alongside Katherine Timpf and Eric Bolling for the afternoon show ‘Fox News Specialist’, which has been on air since May 2017. In June 2017, Williams was named the co-host of an afternoon talk show, alongside Curtis Silwa, on WABC radio, replacing Ron Cuby.

Personal Life

Williams identifies herself as a liberal leftist and says she is Pro-choice and pro-life on the topic of abortion. She has never revealed anything about her personal or family life in the media apart from the fact that she credits her mother, who single-handedly raised her. She is the only person in her family to have a complete four-year University education. A private person, Williams claims she prefers her work to do her bidding.

Eboni Williams  – Salary and Net Worth

Her salary is an estimated $50000 per annum with a net worth of $1 million.

Mika Brzezinski – The Success Story

Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski is a reputed American television host and author. She is also a political commentator and appears on the weekday morning broadcast show ‘Morning Joe’ that airs on MSNBC Network which she co-hosts with her fiancé Joe Scarborough. She is acclaimed for her dedication to hard-hitting journalistic stories. Brzezinski also serves as a visiting professor at the Harvard Institute of Politics which is a part of Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Brzezinski has had an illustrious career in journalism in which she has served at major networks or their affiliates. In the more than 25 years of her career, Brzezinski has been associated with Networks such as ABC (where she began her career), Fox Network, CBC Network and the MSNBC network. She has worked in various roles throughout her career starting as an assistant, a general assignment reporter, a correspondent and an anchor. Brzezinski is known for her protest against trivial journalism.

Early Life and Education

Brzezinski was born on 2 May 1967 in New York City to Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former National Security Advisor and foreign policy expert and Emilie Anna Benešová, a sculptor. Her father was the National Security Advisor to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Brzezinski has two brothers Mark and Ian Brzezinski. While Mark is an American diplomat and also served as an Ambassador to Sweden, Ian is a military expert.

Mika Brzezinski’s parents

Brzezinski was a student at The Madeira School from where she completed her high school education. As a junior, she went to Georgetown University and later transferred to attend Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts from where she graduated in 1989 with a Major in English.

Career Rise

Brzezinski started her career in journalism in 1990 in the capacity of an assistant at the ‘World News This Morning’ program on the ABC network. In the following years, she worked at Fox network’s affiliate WTIC-TV/WTIC-DT, in 1991 as a general assignment reporter, at CBC’s WFSB-TV/WFSB-DT as a weekday anchor and at CBS News where she worked as a correspondent as well as anchor for ‘Up to the Minute’ an overnight program. In 2001, she started working at MSNBC, a rival of CBS News on ‘HomePage’, a weekday afternoon show that she co-anchored with Ashleigh Banfield and Gina Gaston, but returned to CBS News in the September of the same year. She served as a ‘ground zero’ correspondent reporter during the 9/11 Attacks in USA, a move that catapulted her into limelight. Although she found fame at CBS, she was fired in 2006.

In January 2007, Brzezinski returned to the MSNBC Network where she covered the evening slot of ‘Up To The Minute’, a news update program. She also worked as a news reporter and anchor for the affiliate NBC for the show ‘Weekend Today’. After she resigned from both the shows, she was selected by Joe Scarborough to co-host ‘Morning Joe’ alongside him and Willie Geist and continues to host the show since its inception in April 2007.

Mika Brzezinski – Pics

Personal Life

When Brzezinski was working at the WTIC-TV Network in  Hartford, Connecticut, she met James Patrick Hoffer, a TV News reporter. After dating for a while, the couple got married in October 1993. Together thay have two children, daughters named Emilie and Carlie Hoffer. After being married for 23 years, the couple parted ways and were officially divorced in 2016.

 

Brzezinski announced in early 2017 that she has gotten engaged to Joe Scarborough, her co-host on the ‘Morning Joe’ show.

Mika Brzezinski‘s daughters Emilie and Carlie Hoffer

Mika Brzezinski – Salary and Net Worth

Brzezinski draws an annual salary of approximately $2 Million and has an estimated net worth of approximately $12 Million.

Know Vin Diesel Better!

Mark Sinclair or better known as Vin Diesel is a well-known American actor, producer, screen-writer and director. He is best known for his character in the Fast and the Furious series. Not just that, he is also known for playing the character of Richard B. Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick Series and Xander Cage in the XXX series . He was the producer in both the aforementioned series.

Not just as an actor, Diesel is also famous for being a voice artist and has lent his voice in the Iron Giant which is a video game representation of The Chronicles of Riddick series and the Guardians of the Galaxy. He is also well known for writing and producing the films Multi- Facial and Strays. He also owns a number of production companies, Racetrack Records, One Race Films are some of them.

Early life and education

Vin Diesel was born as Mark Sinclair on July 18, 1967 in Alameda County in California to Delora Sherleen. Diesel has stated in several reports that he has no clue about his biological father was and says that he belongs to an ambiguous ethnicity. His mother was an astrologer. He also has a twin brother, Paul Sinclair.

Diesel and his brother were raised by his mother and step-father, Irving H. Vincent who belong to a African-American background in the New York City. His step father was a theatre manager and an acting instructor.

It was right from the childhood that Diesel showed his passion in acting and even participated in several plays. He was part of the play, Dinosaur Door which was something totally unexpected for him. He went in along with his mother and brother to the Theatre of the New City to vandalise the place but instead was approached by the artistic director of the theatre who gave him the role instead of calling the police.

Diesel continued to be part of the stage and theatres till the late adolescent stages of his life and later enrolled himself in the Hunter’s College where his writing skills got recognition. It was then that he started his career as a screenwriter.

Vin Diesel – Girlfriend and children

  • Vin Diesel has been in a long term relationship with his girlfriend Paloma Jimenez who is a famous Mexican model. The couple have three children together, Hania Riley, Vincent Sinclair and Pauline who was named in memory of Diesel’s friend and co-star Paul Walker.
  • Apart from that, Diesel is also god father to Paul’s daughter Meadow Rain Walker.

Career

The 1.82 meter tall Diesel’s film career started off with a small role in the movie Awakenings in the year 1990 following which he wrote, directed and produced his own drama-film Multi-Facial in the year 2004. Since then he has made a number of feature films and short drama films which have gained a lot of praise and appreciation.

He rose to fame with his portrayal of the anti-Riddick character in the movie Pitch Black followed by the roles in the Fast and the Furious series. Apart from these, he has also been part of several other movies, Riddick, The Last Witch Hunter to name a few. He is known for his deep, sharp voice that adds to his personality.

Vin Diesel – Net worth

Vin Diesel has an estimated net worth of $75 million.

Mayawati – Know her Better!

Mayawati is a popular Indian politician who is best known for her service of four years as being the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. She is also the national leader of the popular political party, Bahujan Samaj Party whose main point of concern revolves around the well being of the lowest strata of the society, the Dalits and the other religious minorities.

It was in the year 1993 that Kanshi Ram collaborated with the Samajwadi Party and that was when Mayawati became the youngest Chief Minister in office for the state of Uttar Pradesh. She was also the very first woman Dalit chief minister of the state. Her tenure has been both rewarding and controversial. She is been referred to “Behenji” by her supporters.

Early life and education

Mayawati was born as Mayawati Prabhu Das on January 15, 1956 in New Delhi, India at the Shrimati Sucheta Kriplani Hospital in a Dalit family. Prabhu Das, her father was an employee at the post office at Badalpur which is located in the Gautam Buddha Nagar. She had to face discrimination right from her childhood when she went to the government school while her brother was sent to private schools.

After finishing her schooling, Mayawati pursued her Bachelor degree from Kalindi College in the year 1985 and later completed her LLB from the Campus Law Centre. She also obtained her B.Ed in the year 1986 from the VMLG College which is located in Ghaziabad. Mayawati chose to be unmarried.

Career

The political party, Bahujan Samaj Party was formed by Kanshi Ram in the year 1984 and they elected Mayawati as their representative for the seat of Kairana in their very first election campaign. She was also later elected for the years 1985 and 1987 for the seats in Bijnor and Haridwar. She finally won the seat of Bijnor in the year 1989 by 8,879 votes.

She was later elected in the Rajya Sabha of Uttar Pradesh in the year 1994. She was also elected as the head of the party in 1995 and later became the Chief Minister of the state. She also won the Lok Sabha election and served for the province of Harora and later became the Chief Minister in 1997 and later from 2002 till 2003.

Mayawati was elected as the Chief Minister for the fourth time on May 13, 2007. Her main focus during this tenure included generation of employment for the lower strata of the society instead of giving away money. She even reserved 30% of the seats in the private jobs for the Dalits but the bill was not passed by the Supreme Court of India.

Published books

A number of books have been written on Mayawati including her autobiographies which are inspirational. One of the very first reports and published books was that of the one written by journalist Mohammad Jamil Akhter, titled Iron Lady Kumari Mayawati. Her autobiographies have been published in two languages, two volumes in English and two in Hindi.

Mayawati – Net worth

Mayawati has an estimated net worth of Rs. 111 crore.

House

It has also been reported that she has two residential properties, one worth Rs. 62 crore in Delhi and Rs. 19 crore in Lucknow.

Know Zsa Zsa Gabor Better!

Zsa Zsa Gabor was a famous Hungarian-American actress and television personality who was also crowned the title of Miss Hungary back in 1936. She started her career on stage in Vienna. She relocated her entire life to the United States in the year 1941 in order to “make it big” and soon became a very sought after actress owing to her European flair and style.

She soon rose to fame and landed herself her very first film appearance as a supporting actress in the movie Lovely to Look At. She later was part of the cast of We’re Not Married and is known for portraying the lead role in the 1952 John Huston movie Moulin Rouge. Apart from all the glamour, she was also known for her multiple marriages and her extravagant lifestyle.

Early life and education

Zsa Zsa Gabor was born as Sári Gábor on February 06, 1917 in Budapest, Hungary to Vilmos Gabor and Jolie Gabor. Her father was a soldier while her mother was a homemaker. She is the middle of the three daughters in the house, her other sisters Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor being actresses as well.

Zsa Zsa Gabor – Husband/s and children

Gabor has been married a total of nine times during her lifetime in which she divorced seven times and her marriage was annulled once. She even mentioned in her autobiography that she loved being married because she liked the companionship and also the idea of cooking for someone.

The marriages have been mentioned in a chronological order below.

  • She married Burhan Asaf Belge in the year 1937 and later got divorced in 1941.
  • She married Conrad Hilton on April 10, 1942 and divorced in 1947. She mentioned in her biography how controlling and manipulative Hilton was and that was the main reason for their divorce.
  • She married George Sander on April 02, 1949 and later divorced on April 02, 1954.
  • She married Herbert Hutner on November 05, 1962 and divorced on March 03, 1966.
  • She married Joshua S. Cosden on March 09, 1966 and divorced on October 18, 1967.
  • She married Jake Ryan on January 21, 1975 and divorced August 24, 1976.
  • She married Michael O’Hara on August 27, 1976 and divorced in 1983.
  • Her marriage with Felipe de Alba was annulled in 1983.
  • She married Frederic Prinz von Anhalt on August 14, 1986.

Career

Gabor was discovered by Richard Tauber in 1934 on a trip to Vienna while she was a student herself. That was when she was approached with a role in the opera Der Singende Traum which was played at the Theatre an der Wien. She was later crowned as Miss Hungary in 1936.

Following her moving to the United States in 1941, she started auditioning and soon became a very chased after actress. Some of the most prominent roles includes the movie like that of Moulin Rouge, Lovely to Look at, Touch Of Evil, The Beverly Hillbillies et cetera.

Death

Gabor passed away on December 18, 2016 at the age of 99 due to cardiac arrest at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles. It was later reported that her son, Oliver Prince von Anhalt died a few days after his mother’s death.

Zsa Zsa Gabor – Young Pictures

Zsa Zsa Gabor – Net Worth

Zsa Zsa Gabor had an estimated net worth of $40 million.

 

Know Kangana Ranaut Better!

Kangana Ranaut has made quite a name for herself in Bollywood. She is best known for movies like Queen, Tanu Weds Manu and Gangster.  The 1.73 meter tall actress is one of the highest paid actresses in Bollywood, and is known for her wide variety of roles.

Early life and Education

Kangana Ranaut was born to Asha, a school teacher and Amardeep, a businessman on 23rd March, 1986. She had a simple upbringing at Bhambla, now Surajpur in Himachal Praesh, India. She has an elder sister, Rangoli and a younger brother, Akshat. Ranaut lived in a joint family set-up and was rebellious and stubborn as a child. Kangana Ranaut was studious and completed her education from DAV School in Chandigarh. She agreed to become a doctor on her parent’s insistence, but never went for the All India Pre-Medical Test and decided to pursue a different career.

Career

Kangana decided to move to Delhi to look for other career option, but her parents weren’t happy with her decision. In Delhi, she got in touch with Elite Modelling Agency, who loved her and suggested modelling assignments. Kangana started pursuing theatre and worked with Arvind Gaur and Girish Karnad. On receiving positive review, she moved to Mumbai to focus on a career in films.

She enrolled for a four-month training program with Asha Chandra, at her drama school. Ranaut had to struggle a lot to make ends meet. She was adamant not to take financial aid from her family and they cut all ties with her after her decision to enter Bollywood.

Her big break came in Anurag Basu’s Gangster. At the age of seventeen, she made a mark in the industry, going on to win all the debutant awards that year. Kangana went on to play challenging roles in Woh Lamhe, and again reunited with Anurag Basu for Life in a… Metro. Kangana went on to star in Fashion, where her small role left a mark.

Her career took a dip, but she was soon back with Tanu Weds Manu, and then Queen, which was a game changer for her. With Queen, she also dabbled with the script since she co-wrote the dialogues with Anvita Dutt Guptan. The film won her the National Film Award for Best Actress. She won the second National Film Award after Tanu Weds Manu Returned.

Kangana Ranaut – Net worth and Salary

Ranaut charges around Rs. 5-6 crores for a film and her net worth is $10 million.

Meet Geeta Phogat – The First Woman from India to Qualify for Olympic Freestyle Wrestling

Geeta Phogat is an Indian freestyle wrestler in the Women’s category. She is also the very first woman who has won the gold medal in the category of wrestling in the Commonwealth Games in the year 2010. She is also the very first woman from India who has qualified for the Olympic Games in the category of freestyle wrestling.

Early life

Geeta Phogat was born on December 15, 1988 in Bhiwani, Haryana in a Jaat Family. It was her father, Mahavir Singh Phogat who trained both her and her sister in wrestling. Both her sister, Babita Kumari and her cousin, Vinesh Phogat are first place and gold medal holders in the Common wealth Games.

Career and achievements

Geeta won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in the year 2009 which was held in Jalandhar which is located in Punjab, India. She later became the very first Indian woman to win the Gold medal in the Commonwealth Games in the category of freestyle wrestling which was held in New Delhi, India in the year 2010. She defeated Emily Bensted who was from Australia.

Geeta was also the very first woman from India to have qualified for the Olympic Games. She bagged the gold medal during the Wrestling FILA Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament which was held in Almaty in Kazakhstan in 2012. She later lost the next step against Canadian wrestler Tonya Verbeek by 1-3. During that time, she was under a training and guidance of Coach O.P Yadav and the international expert Ryan Dobo.

During the World Wrestling Championships which was held in the year 2012, Geeta won the third place and bagged the bronze medal under the skillful guidance of the chief coach, O.P Yadav. She faced Maria Gurova in the very first round and beat her with a score of 3-1 but lost the second round against Saori Yoshida of Japan by 5-0. She later faced Akziya Dautbayeva in the repechage match and won it with a score of 3-1, thereby winning the bronze medal.

Geeta lost the 2012 Asian Wrestling Championship against Kanako Murata by a 5-0 score. She later won the bronze medal in the repechage match against Sumiya Erdenechimeg with a score line of 3-0. She even secured the second place, winning the silver medal in the in the 2013 Commonwealth Games in the women’s freestyle 59 kg category.

Geeta won the bronze medal in the freestyle 58 kg category at the Asian Championships which were held in Doha in the year 2015. She lost the first position to the nine-time World Champion Laori Icho by a score of 0-10 at the 2015 World Championship which were held in Las Vegas. She later fought in the repechage match for the bronze medal in which she again lost against Elif Jale Yesilirmak by a score of 0-10.

The latest biographical sports film Dangal directed by Nitesh Tiwari is the movie inspired by her and her sister’s life and her father’s struggles with the society. Her character is being portrayed by Fatima Sana Sheikh.

Husband

Her husband Pawan Kumar is a fellow wrestler. The couple got married on November 20, 2016.

Geeta Phogat – Net Worth and Salary

Her net worth is Rs. 18 crore and her salary is an estimated Rs. 1. 5 crore.

Know Jim Nantz Better!

James William “Jim” Nantz, III was born on May 17, 1959. The American sports commentator has worked on telecasts of the NFL, NCAA Division I for men’s basketball and PGA Tour for the CBS Sports channel.

Early life and education

This sports commentator was born in North Carolina at Charlotte. He did his schooling from the Marlboro High School and has spent his childhood days in New Jersey and in Louisiana. In his high school days he represented his schools’ basketball team where he was the vice-captain. He has some good skills in playing golf also. There also he was the vice-captain and was the player number one in the team. He was also a member of the Bamm Hollow Country Club.

After completing his high school education he went to Texas and got his graduate degree from the University of Houston. He studied  broadcasting and also featured in the Houston Cougars men’s golf team with Blaine McCallister and Fred Couples who became famous golf players later. It was at this time, Nantz, the sports commentator got his very first experience of being into sports broadcasting with the CBS. He transmitted the interview reports for Win Elliot for Win Elliot’s report on Sports Central USA weekends.

Career

Nantz was a sports anchor and sports commentator for the KHOU Houston in the early 80s and became a weekend sports anchor of KSL-TV at Salt Lake City from 1982 to 1985. Nantz started working with the CBS from 1985. Firstly he was a studio anchor for the grid’s college basketball and football coverage, and a PGA Tour golf reporter, as well as a commentator for NFL games on Westwood One during 1988–1990.

Nantz hosted CBS’ coverage of the Golfs Masters tournament from 1989 onwards. He along with Billy Packer hosted the NCAA Final Four men’s basketball finals for 17 long years starting from 1991 to 2008. For the period of 2008 to 2013, Clark Kellogg was his analyst. From 2010 to 13, Nantz and Kellogg were assisted by Steve Kerr of TNT Sports during the Final Four. From 2013 to 14, Greg Anthony teamed up with Nantz. But after the suspension of Anthony he was supported by Bill Raftery.

In 2009, Nantz and wine producer Peter Deutsch launched a private wine label “The calling” and its vintage version released in 2012.

Nantz is a regular political provider, usually supporting associates of the Republican Party. In the past period he has contributed money to the operations of Joe Lieberman, George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Lindsey Graham. In recent times he has funded the maximum sum allowed by law to support 2016 Presidential Campaign of Jeb Bush’s.

Jim Nantz – Wife

His first wife’s name is Ann-Lorraine Carlsen, they were married for 26 before the divorce in 2009. They have a daughter called Caroline. As a part of alimony and child support, Nantz was ordered by court to pay his ex wife $916,000 per year. It was reported that Nantz was in a relationship with another woman, back then, before the divorce

On June 2012, the 1.93 meter tall  Nantz got married to Courtney Richards, in Pebble Beach, California.  The two have a baby girl, Nantz’ second child, a boy called Jameson, born on February, 2016

 

Jim Nantz – Net worth and salary

Nantz gets a yearly salary of $7 million and has a net worth of $15 million

Know Pepsi Co CEO Indra Nooyi Better!

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is the Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo. She was born on 28th October, 1955 in Madras, now known as Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. She is currently ranked among top 100 Most Powerful Women in the World by Forbes. Nooyi was ranked 86th in the Most Powerful Woman’s list by Fortune as well.

Early life and Education

Nooyi had a humble beginning in Madras. She came from a simple, conservative middle-class family. Her father was a bank official. In spite of coming from a conservative background, Nooyi had a wild streak in her. She was known to be rebellious as a young girl and even played the guitar in a band. She was active in sports and was part of the all-girl’s cricket team, something that the society didn’t appreciate then.

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi did her schooling from Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School. She was a brilliant student and showed much promise from an early age. She went on to study physics, chemistry and math from the Madras Christian College. She graduated in 1974. Nooyi subsequently completed her MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and then went on to Yale School of Management.

Indra Nooyi – Young Pics

Career

Indra Nooyi began her career with Tootal. Soon she moved to Johnson & Johnson where she was the product manager. Having done a great job, she was soon shifted to take charge of Stayfree sanitary napkins, which were being introduced in India. The advertising of feminine hygiene products was banned and Stayfree was struggling to make a mark in the Indian market. Nooyi made a breakthrough when she decided to market directly to college students and children in high schools.

Nooyi realized that she was underprepared for her job and went on to Yale School of Management, where she completed a course in Public and Private Management. She joined Boston Consulting Group and then kept on going up the ranks in different renowned companies.

She joined PepsiCo in 1994 and played a key role in the growth of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, that the company was involved in. She has also helped PepsiCo focus on healthier snacks and was promoted to CFO in 2000 and finally became the CEO after Steve Reinemund retired in 2006. She has recently been selected by Donald Trump to the Strategic and Policy Forum.

Husband and Children

Her husband Raj Nooyi and her two daughters, stay in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Indra Nooyi – Net-worth and Salary

Nooyi draws a salary of $24.6 million.and her net worth is $144 million.

P V Sindhu – The Ace Badminton Champion from India!

Pusaria Venkata Sindhu, popularly known as PV Sindhu became the first Indian to win the silver medal in badminton at the Olympics. She made history with her performance at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Early Life

PV Sindhu was born to volleyball players, Arjuna Awardee PV Ramana and P. Vijaya. She was born on 5th July, 1995 in Hyderabad. While she was growing up, PV Sindhu had two volleyball players as her parents, but she chose badminton as her game of choice as she was inspired by the success of Pullela Gopichand at the All England Open Badminton Champion in 2001. Sindhu started playing badminton from the age of eight. She learnt the basics from Mehboob Ali and finally joined Pullela Gopichan’s academy.

Joining Gopichand’s academy helped her shine in badminton and she went on to win a number of tournaments. Even though PV. Sindhu had to travel for over 56 km from her residence to reach the coaching center, she was never late and this goes on to reflect her dedication and love for the sport.

Career

PV Sindhu won the under-10 years category of the 5th Servo All India Championship in both the doubles and singles category. She later won the under-13 category, which was organized in Pondicherry. PV Sindhu won the gold at even the All India Ranking tournament in Pune and the 51st National School Games.

While she was winning the national tournaments, PV Sindhu started making a mark in the international circuit as well. She won the bronze at the Sub-Junior Asian Badminton Championship, which was held in Colombo in 2009. In 2010 she won the silver at the Iran Fajr International Badminton Challenge and was part of the Indian contingent for the 2010 Uber Cup as well.

PV Sindhu had a very successful run at the Indonesia Open and the China Open. At the onset of the Japan Open, there was a lot of hopes riding on her, but she was defeated in the second round by Bae Yeon Jr. from Korea, since she was nursing a bruised knee. She sat out of the World Junior Championships to heal fast.

At the Rio Olympics, Sindhu defeated Wang Yihan to set a finals game with Spain’s Carolina Marin. Sindhu lost the match 1-2 and went on to clinch the first silver medal for India.

Sindhu was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2013 and the Padma Shri in 2015.

P V Sindhu – Net Worth and Salary

The 1.79 meter tall badminton star has a net worth of INR 54 crore. She signed an endorsement deal worth Rs. 50 crore for 3 years, from various companies. She categorically refused endorsing colas and soft drinks.