WATCH: Meet The New Badminton Goddess, Gronya Somerville!

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In tennis, there's Maria Sharapova and now there's also one in badminton.

Meet Australian Gronya Somerville, a poster girl for badminton and already got a huge following partially because of her good looks and skill.

Somerville reportedly first caught the fancy of the badminton world when she represented her country at the 2012 Thomas & Uber Cup.  



Gronya is the "fifth-generation" descendant of Kang. Her father is Chinese and mother is British.

"Since I was young, my mum tell us that he (Kang) was like a revolutionist and really helped change China with his unique thinking," said the 20-year-old Australian, who has been trained in a system of "Sport in Schools".



"I began when I was 12 years old through a talent program in Australia and before that I had never played badminton," she said.

"They asked primary school girls to come try for badminton. They just did fitness testing, and picked some of us and started to train."

"And when I just first played it, I just really enjoyed it. And my family all support me," she recalled.

 Eight years later, she is now setting her sights on next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she hopes to finish in the Top 10.

Now let's take a quick look how she looks like when not playing badminton: