The Badminton Association of India hopes to slowly reduce the culture of personal coaches in favour of group training sessions under national coaches going ahead in the current Olympic cycle. The federation has approached Indonesia’s Irwansyah Adi Pratama and Malaysian Tan Kim Her to coach India’s top singles and doubles players respectively. While Irwansyah guided two Indonesians – champion Jonatan …
SAI allowed the national camp for eight Olympic hopefuls following approval from the Telangana government on 1 August but only four are currently training at the SAI-Pullela Gopichand Academy. India’s foreign coach for badminton, Agus Dwi Santoso, says he will not be able to implement his plans with only four shuttlers at his disposal, and wants the Sports Authority of …
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