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Sindhu, who had already won two silver and two bronze medals at the event, defeated her nemesis Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in the summit clash that lasted just 38 minutes on August 26 last year to become the first badminton world champion from India.
The world champion shuttler, who has been confined to her home in Hyderabad during lockdown, answered the questions of Malayala Manorama readers and a few sportspersons.
India will now compete in World Group I in September to get back to the Davis Cup Qualifiers.
India now must win all three remaining matches on Saturday to qualify for Davis Cup finals.
Ronaldinho and his brother and business manager Roberto Assis both entered Paraguay on Wednesday with false documents, officials said.
Sumit Nagal, Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Ramkumar Ramanathan are the singles players in the squad while Paes and Rohan Bopanna will do the doubles duty against Croatia.
Men's title-holder Novak Djokovic eased into the last 16 but elsewhere there were surprises all over Melbourne Park with Williams the biggest victim and Federer fighting back from 4-8 down in a fifth-set tie-break with John Millman.
Tai Tzu-ying beat Sindhu 21-16, 21-16 in the quarterfinal, while Saina was no match for Carolina Marin.
However, it was curtains for the India men as both Sameer Verma and H S Prannoy crashed out of the tournament.
Nadal had to twice fight back from a break down against the Japanese world number 72 in the opening set before winning the tiebreaker.