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Playing to Win

By: Saina Nehwal Series: Sports & Games Accounts

Playing to Win is the inspirational autobiography of Indian badminton star, Saina Nehwal. at the young age of twenty two, she is a Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardee and has been decorated with the Padma Bhushan. This book lets you peek into Saina Nehwal's celebrated life and talks about her character and determination to make it big in the highly competitive world of badminton.

In this book, Saina talks about her childhood in Ghaziabad and Hisar and her subsequent relocation to Hyderabad. She v...ividly describes the various ups and downs in her life and the bonds she formed with the important people in her life. She also talks about the many sacrifices her family made for her, while she was pursuing badminton and the kind of sacrifices that she had to make. She also offers a view to the unseen aspects of her personality, giving readers a chance to look at her role as a daughter, student and sister.

Reader find out that a regular day in Saina's life is not easy, a day in her life involves following a strict diet, followed by a grueling training session and a strict regimen in order to keep fit. But she does have her own ways of letting her hair down. She finds joy in the little things, like enjoying an ice cream or playing a game on her Ipad.

Playing to Win offers a rare look inside a professional athlete's life and what it is like to be at the top of one's sport. The book was published by Penguin India in 2012 and is available in paperback.

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