Even as the Indian badminton fraternity celebrates PV Sindhu's gold medal win at the BWF World Championships against Japan's Nozomi Okuhara yesterday, there's one man who is already charting his most famous ward's path to next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.

India coach Pullela Gopichand believes Sindhu will now have to work doubly hard if she has to replicate last night's Basel show at Tokyo 2020. "It's great to have the biggest title of the year — the World Championships — under your belt heading into the year of the Olympics. But what this win does is that it actually makes people alert and ready for you. The last time at the Olympics, people were not ready for Sindhu and she was a surprise package, but this time, the whole world is going to concentrate and focus on how to beat Sindhu.