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The veteran feels the tennis has to be reinvented like other sports to attract more kids and said the competition is huge with the league such as IPL, Premier Badminton League, Ultimate Table Tennis. read more

Gopichand also stressed the need to work on opponents being able to read “certain strokes and game patterns” of Indian shuttlers ahead of Tokyo 2020. read more

India’s chief coach Pullela Gopichand says Srikanth has to play “really well” to nurture hopes of qualifying for the Olympics. read more

The two other big names who were not included in the panel were badminton’s chief national coach Pullela Gopichand and former Indian football team captain Bhaichung Bhutia. read more

The statement comes in the wake of India’s chief coach Pullela Gopichand’s comments in an upcoming book, ‘Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympic Games’ that how miserable he felt when Saina shifted to PPBA. read more

Sindhu is currently the reigning women’s singles world champion having clinched the title by beating Nozomi Okuhara of Japan at Basel, Switzerland in August last year. read more

PV Sindhu says Korean coach Park Tae-sang and chief coach Pullela Gopichand are helping her hone new techniques and work on her strokes for the big season ahead. read more

After Indonesian doubles expert, Flandy Limpele, currently with the India team, gave an interview a few days back about a “lack of gratitude and discipline” among Indian players for their coaches, he got the backing of Gopichand. read more

The Almora-born shuttler has had a tremendous run of form in the latter half of this year, winning five out of seven tournaments since September. read more

The experts will review the code vis-a-vis the present code and will examine the comments received by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and various National Sports Federations (NSF) related to the new draft. read more

PV Sindhu has fallen in the early stages at all tournaments except the French Open since winning her maiden World Championship title in August. read more

This top flight sportsman who excelled in badminton, became the second Indian to win the All-England Open Championship and then turned into a world-class coach. He trained top shuttlers like Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu and Srikanth Kidambi. read more

The image of a “calm and composed” Gopichand sitting court side during matches is quite familiar and he revealed that he never intends to put additional pressure on shuttlers when they are already under pressure. read more

“There is no respite. You are actually playing way too many tournaments. If you look at world badminton, a number of players have withdrawn (from tournaments) from Tai (Tzu Ying) to Carolina Marin,” said Gopichand. read more

Kim Ji Hyun, who played a pivotal role in PV Sindhu’s march to the world title recently, last week resigned as India’s women’s singles coach citing personal reasons. read more