Indian badminton gets a new home: A shuttlecock-inspired academy in Bhubaneswar under Gopichand's guidance
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Indian badminton gets a new home: A shuttlecock-inspired academy in Bhubaneswar under Gopichand's guidance

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Badminton Association of India President Himanta Biswa Sarma said the new academy in Bhubaneswar will benefit the sport and help in building a strong vibrant sporting culture in India. Designed in the shape of a shuttlecock, the Dalmia Bharat Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy aims to inspire the next generation of Indian badminton stars and produce a gold medallist at the 2036 Olympics, which India hopes to host. The inauguration of the Dalmia Bharat Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar is a significant milestone not only for badminton but for the entire sport in India,” BAI President Sarma said at the inauguration ceremony. @MyDalmiaCement @DalmiaBharat @sports_odisha @PGopichand73 @ShuttleByDalmia… pic.twitter.com/ZtvFIQ8cry — Dalmia Bharat Group December 11, 2024 BAI president urges for more support to badminton BAI President Himanta Biswa Sarma also urged other state governments to invest more in badminton and highlighted that the sport has earned three Olympic medals for the country but continues to lag in terms of attracting investment from sponsors and state governments.

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National Badminton Championship: Cream of India’s second-rung talent to be in action
3 weeks, 3 days ago

National Badminton Championship: Cream of India’s second-rung talent to be in action

The Hindu  

Nearly a dozen years after last making a pit stop in the Garden City, the Senior National Badminton Championship will return to Bengaluru for its latest edition starting Wednesday. The cream of India’s second-rung talent will be in action in the seven-day long event which will see team championship matches on the first two days followed by the individual competitions. …

Our vision is to make Odisha shuttlers’ hub in country, asserts Puneet Dalmia
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Our vision is to make Odisha shuttlers’ hub in country, asserts Puneet Dalmia

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: As India is going to bid for Olympics in 2036, the nation can hope at least one shuttler from the Badminton High-Performance Centre, set up in collaboration with the Odisha government, brings home Olympic glory and this one-of-a-kind facility creates a robust talent pool, said managing director and CEO of Dalmia Bharat Group Puneet Dalmia. Speaking to The New …

High Performance Centre for badminton becomes latest addition at Kalinga Stadium
4 weeks, 1 day ago

High Performance Centre for badminton becomes latest addition at Kalinga Stadium

The Hindu  

‘Shuttle by Dalmia Bharat’ - a badminton High Performance Centre - was inaugurated on Thursday at the Kalinga Stadium Complex. The Dalmia Bharat Group, the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy, and the Government of Odisha signed a Memorandum of Understanding five years back. “I promise you that in the 2036 Olympics, one player from this academy will get one gold medal,” …

Jwala Gutta: We didn’t start the Academy only for badminton, it’s a centre for excellence
1 year ago

Jwala Gutta: We didn’t start the Academy only for badminton, it’s a centre for excellence

The Hindu  

One of India’s finest ever women’s doubles badminton players, G. Jwala, who started the Jwala Gutta Academy of Excellence at the Sujatha School near here about three years ago, has decided to branch out to different sporting disciplines with women’s cricket being the first major initiative in this regard. It is a centre for excellence where we strive to groom …

The flying shuttle: How Pullela Gopichand transformed badminton in India
1 year, 4 months ago

The flying shuttle: How Pullela Gopichand transformed badminton in India

Hindustan Times  

In 2001, at the All-England badminton championships, a gangly, determined Indian shuttler, known on the circuit but below the radar of the rest of the country, decided to make his presence felt. Today, if Indian badminton has reached the levels it has — six men’s, four women’s, and three men’s doubles players in the Top 50 — its miraculous journey …

India National Badminton Coach Pullela Gopichand Awarded Honorary Doctorate
1 year, 6 months ago

India National Badminton Coach Pullela Gopichand Awarded Honorary Doctorate

News 18  

India’s chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand was awarded an honorary doctorate by Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence, Karnataka on the occasion of its second convocation. “It was a great honour to be recognised and conferred with an honorary doctorate at the hands of the Hon’ble President of India, Smt. “Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence in …

BAI to Conduct Trials to Pick Squad for Badminton Asia Junior Championship
1 year, 7 months ago

BAI to Conduct Trials to Pick Squad for Badminton Asia Junior Championship

News 18  

Anwesha Gowda, Anupama Upadhyaya and Unnati Hooda will be favourites to take their spots in the selection trials for the highly-anticipated Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2023 at the Karnail Singh Stadium here from June 4-7. One of Asia’s most prestigious junior badminton tournaments, which is scheduled in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from July 7-16, provides a remarkable platform for young talents to …

Indian badminton has come a long way, says chief national coach P. Gopi Chand
1 year, 8 months ago

Indian badminton has come a long way, says chief national coach P. Gopi Chand

The Hindu  

Indian badminton has come a long way from the days when it was removed from even the priority list of the Union Sports Ministry and the national squad too was not sent for the Commonwealth Games, said chief national coach P. Gopi Chand on Saturday. “Definitely, 2016 and 2017 were truly special for Indian badminton with Sindhu winning the Olympics …

Happy Birthday Pullela Gopichand: Lesser-known Facts About the Legendary Badminton Player and Celebrated Coach
2 years, 1 month ago

Happy Birthday Pullela Gopichand: Lesser-known Facts About the Legendary Badminton Player and Celebrated Coach

News 18  

Pullela Gopichand is a former India badminton ace who is best known for nurturing colossal talents like Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, and Parupalli Kashyap. Gopichand hogged the limelight back in 2001 after reigning supreme in the All England Open Badminton Championships, becoming only the second Indian to achieve this major milestone after the legendary Prakash Padukone. Currently serving as the …

Himanta Biswa Sarma re-elected as BAI president, Gopichand named among vice presidents
2 years, 9 months ago

Himanta Biswa Sarma re-elected as BAI president, Gopichand named among vice presidents

The Hindu  

Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma was re-elected unopposed as the president of Badminton Association of India for another four years term from 2022 to 2026 at the general body meeting held in Guwahati on Friday. Sarma, who took over the reins of BAI in 2017, is also the Badminton Asia vice president and a member of the Badminton …

Book Review | 'Shuttler’s Flick: Making Every Match Count' offers peek into mind of Pullela Gopichand
3 years ago

Book Review | 'Shuttler’s Flick: Making Every Match Count' offers peek into mind of Pullela Gopichand

Firstpost  

The book would appeal to various kinds of people – those who enjoy reading about sports, those who like books on leadership, those who are curious about the lives of famous personalities, and those who thrive on self-help. We get to read about Gopichand in the third person from Priya, and we also encounter Gopichand’s own voice in first-person narratives …

Tokyo 2020: National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand expects rich haul of medals from Indian contingent
3 years, 6 months ago

Tokyo 2020: National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand expects rich haul of medals from Indian contingent

India Today  

National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is hopeful that the Indian contingent will return with a rich haul of medals from the Tokyo Olympics, starting from July 23. I hope that we get enough medals, so they give a boost in the arm to us," said Gopichand, during a webinar on 'Tokyo Olympics - India's Journey and Expectations' organised by the …

Shuttler Sumeeth Reddy to launch his own academy in July
3 years, 6 months ago

Shuttler Sumeeth Reddy to launch his own academy in July

The Hindu  

One of India’s lead doubles shuttlers, B. Sumeeth Reddy, will formally launch his Indian Badminton Academy at Manikonda here in July. Sumeeth understands nobody can match the standards set by the Gopichand Academy but there was need for a feeder centre before entering the main arena. And, I always felt that if one has a chance to give back to …

P. Gopichand: Indian badminton needs the right structure
3 years, 11 months ago

P. Gopichand: Indian badminton needs the right structure

The Hindu  

For someone whose primary objective since taking up coaching more than a decade ago is to ensure that contemporary players don’t miss out on what he did during his peak, chief national badminton coach P. Gopichand has clearly set a benchmark that is not easy to emulate. The 47-year-old, whose two academies — one set up jointly with the Sports …

PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and 6 Others Shuttlers to Resume Training as National Badminton Camp Starts in Hyderabad
4 years, 5 months ago

PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and 6 Others Shuttlers to Resume Training as National Badminton Camp Starts in Hyderabad

News 18  

Sports Authority of India has decided to resume the Badminton National Camp for 8 Olympic hopefuls at the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad from August 7. The 8 athletes who will resume training at the academy include PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Srikanth Kidambi, Ashwini Ponnappa, B Sai Praneeth, Chirag Shetty, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and N. Sikki Reddy. To ensure complete …

Gopichand: Badminton in India looks well poised
4 years, 5 months ago

Gopichand: Badminton in India looks well poised

The Hindu  

The inspiring success of P. V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal at the global level has made badminton the most flourishing sport in India in the last decade, national chief coach Pullela Gopichand said on Sunday. Gopichand said when he started coaching in 2004 with 25 trainees, including Sindhu, Saina and Kidambi Srikkanth in Hyderabad, nobody thought India would produce such …

Why an Olympic coach got an Olympic nod
4 years, 10 months ago

Why an Olympic coach got an Olympic nod

India Today  

Seldom does a successful sportstar turn an accomplished coach. Pullela Gopichand, 46, has done exactly that, blossoming from the trainer of a few players in Hyderabad to becoming India’s chief national coach in badminton. Nonetheless, Gopichand is the first Indian recipient of an honourable mention’ in the male category of the 2019 International Olympic Committee Coaches Lifetime Achievements Awards. The …

Solely Saina’s decision to shift to Bangalore: Padukone Academy
4 years, 11 months ago

Solely Saina’s decision to shift to Bangalore: Padukone Academy

The Hindu  

The Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy on Tuesday made it clear that it played no role in Saina Nehwal shifting from Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad to Bengaluru to train under Vimal Kumar ahead of the Rio Olympics, calling the move the “sole decision” of the ace shuttler. Gopichand, in a chapter titled ‘Bitter Rivalry’ of an upcoming book ‘Dreams of a …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Pullela Gopichand backs Indian shuttlers to produce a better performance at Games
5 years ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Pullela Gopichand backs Indian shuttlers to produce a better performance at Games

Firstpost  

India’s top players, including PV Sindhu, may not be going through the best of times, but national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is still hopeful of a best-ever Olympics outing in Tokyo. New Delhi: India’s top players, including PV Sindhu, may not be going through the best of times, but national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is still hopeful of a best-ever …

Gopichand hopeful of best-ever showing from badminton players in Tokyo 2020
5 years ago

Gopichand hopeful of best-ever showing from badminton players in Tokyo 2020

The Hindu  

India’s top players, including P V Sindhu, may be going through a rough patch, but national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is hopeful of a best-ever Olympics outing in Tokyo. READ| Gopichand blasts international scheduling, puts focus on a calendar for athletes Gopichand, who has produced two Olympic medallists -- Saina Nehwal and Sindhu -- lauded the Government of India’s Khelo …

Jwala Gutta questions centralisation of power in badminton
5 years, 1 month ago

Jwala Gutta questions centralisation of power in badminton

The Hindu  

Echoing the growing murmurs in the Indian badminton circles, doubles specialist Jwala Gutta has questioned the centralisation of badminton power in Gopichand Academy and how the conflict of interest involving Pullela Gopichand has not been made a talking point. Even people who are non-Telugu, they are playing for Telangana state.” Asked if she believed that playing for Gopichand Academy was …

Pullela Gopichand bestowed upon an honorary doctorate by IIT Kanpur
5 years, 6 months ago

Pullela Gopichand bestowed upon an honorary doctorate by IIT Kanpur

The Hindu  

India’s chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand was bestowed an honorary doctorate by Indian Institure of Technology, Kanpur, on the occasion of its 52nd convocation. The coach extraordinaire along with Infosys chairperson Sudha Murthy and Tessy Thomas, director-general of aeronautical systems at the Defence Research and Development Organisation, received this honour from former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman professor K. …

Kidambi Srikanth will bounce back strongly, says Pullela Gopichand
6 years ago

Kidambi Srikanth will bounce back strongly, says Pullela Gopichand

Deccan Chronicle  

Mumbai: National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand believes that top shuttler Kidambi Srikanth still has the potential to win big tournaments like the All England Championships, despite having a tough year. After clinching four Superseries titles in 2017, fitness and injuries were a concern for the 25-year-old, having fallen short of a single Superseries title despite winning silver in the men’s …

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