Deepika is also a badminton player like her father. Before starting a career in modelling, she used to practice the sport.
At the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards in 2014, Deepika presented The Sportsperson of the Year Award to PV Sindhu.
Also, several media reports suggested that Deepika might star in PV Sindhu's biopic, made by actor Sonu Sood.
Recently, Sindhu fell to fifth seeded Beiwen Zhang from the US in the women's singles final of the $350,000 India Open BWF World Tour Super 500 on Sunday.
The defending champion and top seed lost 18-21, 21-11, 20-22 in an hour and nine minutes to give Beiwen her "career's best moment" at the Siri Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi.
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