Thursday, August 18, 2016

Go Sindhu


Pullela Gopi Chand is Indian badminton, Indian sports. Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao is modern India. Two gentlemen from Andhra Pradesh. Beauty parlouring India forever. Pullela has landed a few smashes in Chinese badminton courts. Has matched them at net drops, speed and fitness. Pullela Academy is that. Sad Saina is injured. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu will today stand in and up for Nehwal to go silver and then gold. For badminton, the book Pullela Gopi Chand: The World Beneath His Feat by Sanjay Sharma and Shachi S. Sharma (2011) is a good start. Gopi says: Coaching for me is anticipating the needs of a player in the future, and preparing them accordingly......If you take the 15 year-old PV Sindhu, who at a five-feet-ten-inch height can tower over opponents and has already won the Sub-junior and Junior singles titles in the country this year (2010), the needs are vastly different. She has to make her net play strong and work on her parallel game and her defensive game as she will be vulnerable in these areas. She hits hard and fast and has natural ability to use her height to great advantage. So I have to cut out the apparent weaknesses in her game and still ensure that the aggressive game she has is updated all the time.  ... Saina has already arrived, while Sindhu is the great prospect of the future. ....On fast court with a fast shuttle, an aggressive Sindhu will walk through the opposition. On a slow court with slower shuttle, Saina will make mincemeat of all since she is physically very fit.....But what happens if Sindhu plays on a slower court with fast shuttle? ....These things are not in our control...... I must also ensure that their weak points are not weak enough to lose a match, yet strong points are strong enough to win the match.'  In Rio 2016, Sindhu is near to pulling away from an ageing Saina, an over-bearing Sarin, a grim Li Xuerui. Will Sindhu do it to Okuhara today and on to Sindhu Gold ? Me bets she will. Pullela has turned out three world toppers: Nehwal, Sindhu and Kidambi. Cant crib, no way.  

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