SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 17 of 100

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Who among the following famous badminton players won Singapore Open 2022?

(a)PV Sindhu
(b)Saina Nehwal
(c)Aparna Popat
(d)Jwala Gutta

Answer

Why

Correct — A. PV Sindhu won the women's singles title at the Singapore Open 2022, beating Wang Zhi Yi of China in the final.

It came in a season in which Sindhu also took the Swiss Open 2022, which is why the same player can be asked through two different tournaments of the same year.

Option (a) is the answer: the 2022 Singapore Open title was Sindhu's.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Saina Nehwal — Saina Nehwal, the London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist and a former world No. 1, was past her title-winning peak by 2022 and did not win this event.
(c)
Aparna Popat — Aparna Popat was a national singles champion of the late 1990s and early 2000s and a Sydney 2000 Olympian. She had retired long before 2022.
(d)
Jwala Gutta — Jwala Gutta played doubles, not singles, so a women's singles title at Singapore was never hers to win in any year.

Concept

This item is name-to-event matching: a player, a tournament and a year, with three plausible names from the same sport standing beside the right one.

For badminton the usable filter is era plus discipline. A 2022 singles title belongs to someone active on the BWF World Tour that season, and a doubles specialist is eliminated before you even think about the tournament.

That filter alone removes two of the four names offered here.

The Singapore Open sits on the BWF World Tour. What the question wants is the winner's name against a year, so it is the year in the stem that does the work — not the status of the tournament.

Key facts

PV Sindhu won the Singapore Open 2022 women's singles title.
PV Sindhu also won the Swiss Open in 2022.
Saina Nehwal won Olympic bronze in women's singles at London 2012.
Jwala Gutta's international career was in women's doubles and mixed doubles.

Study next

Indian winners on the BWF World Tour by year and tournamentThomas Cup 2022 — India's title win and the players in that squadOlympic medallists in Indian badminton and the events they won in

Common traps

Picking Saina Nehwal by reflex because she was India's first badminton superstar.
Ignoring the discipline: a doubles player cannot be the answer to a singles-title question, whatever the year.

SSC reaches the same player through a second tournament of the same season: 24 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.19 asks who won the Swiss Open 2022 and again keys PV Sindhu.

Sport is also asked from the other side in this paper. GA Q.3 gives a player and wants the sport (Nirupama Sanjeev, keyed tennis), and GA Q.1 gives a court term and wants the game (the Baulk Line, keyed Kabaddi).

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