Jan 13, 2025 08:15 PM IST
Irwansyah Adi Pratama has been appointed coach for India’s ladies’s badminton crew, together with PV Sindhu, as BAI focuses on group coaching for enchancment
Indonesia’s Irwansyah Adi Pratama has taken cost of the Indian ladies’s singles shuttlers and been teaching PV Sindhu and others on the nationwide camp in Bengaluru from the brand new 12 months.
India’s PV Sindhu will practice beneath Indonesian coach Irwansyah Adi Pratama. (PTI)
It was confirmed that Irwansyah will solely coach the ladies gamers whereas one other international coach is in talks to be employed for the boys’s singles group in per week or so.
“We will also be bringing on board Indian coaches to train and spar with our top shuttlers. Former players like Manu Attri have already joined the setup and started coaching our top doubles players,” Badminton Affiliation of India (BAI) secretary common Sanjay Mishra stated on Monday.
Irwansyah, a former Indonesia head coach, is credited for the rise of former Asian champion Anthony Sinisuka Ginting and reigning All England champion Jonatan Christie. His stint at dwelling resulted in December after he fell out with the Badminton Affiliation of Indonesia (PBSI) over neither Christie nor Ginting making it previous the group stage finally 12 months’s Paris Olympics. In India, Irwansyah has changed compatriot Agus Dwi Santoso.
After the earlier Olympic cycle when most of India’s prime shuttlers had private coaches, BAI desires to encourage group coaching beneath one head coach for every class. As an illustration, Malaysian coach Tan Kim Her — he’s identified for pairing up Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty — was introduced again final month because the doubles head coach to switch Dane Mathias Boe.
“We have spoken to the players and they have all agreed to training in a group,” Mishra stated.
The step on joint coaching was taken after the Paris Olympics the place for the primary time within the final 4 Video games, Indian badminton gamers didn’t win a medal. “It is good for others and also good for me. They spar and make it difficult for me. It will be like a conference where they are also improving and so am I competing against each other,” stated Sindhu.
High seed Shi Yu Qi pulls out
Former world No.1 Kidambi Srikanth and Kiran George have been added to the boys’s singles draw of the India Open beginning on Tuesday following the late withdrawal of prime seed Shi Yu Qi of China and eighth seed Antony Ginting.
Lakshya Sen takes Ginting’s place within the draw and can face Lin Chun-Yi of Chinese language Taipei within the opener. Srikanth will tackle China’s Weng Hong Yang whereas Kiran George will open his marketing campaign towards Yushi Tanaka of Japan.
Within the ladies’s singles draw, Sindhu will transfer to Busanan Ongbamrungphan’s place and face Sung Shuo Yun of Chinese language Taipei within the first spherical.
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