Jan 15, 2025 10:17 PM IST
The 41-year-old shall be taking up from well-known coach Mulyo Handoyo, who stepped down from the place in the midst of final yr
NEW DELHI: Former India worldwide and former coach of PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen, Anup Sridhar has been appointed the lads’s singles head coach of the Singapore badminton staff.
Anup Sridhar shall be taking up from Mulyo Handoyo, who stepped down from the place in the midst of final yr (HT)
The event passed off in December when the Singapore Badminton Affiliation (SBA) approached 41-year-old to teach their males’s singles shuttlers, comprising former world champion Loh Kean Yew, within the new Olympic cycle.
Anup shall be taking up from well-known coach Mulyo Handoyo, who stepped down from the place in the midst of final yr. Handoyo was the coach of legendary Indonesian participant Taufik Hidayat, guiding him to the 2004 Athens Olympics gold and th 2005 World Championships crown.
Since then, the Singapore males’s singles shuttlers have been with no head coach with their girls’s coach Kim Ji Hyun, who guided Sindhu to the World Championship gold in 2019, taking up the duties whereas on tour. Even on Wednesday, Kim was sitting courtside to Loh in the course of the first-round match on the $950,000 India Open right here.
Although Indians have travelled overseas for teaching – Shlok Ramachandran, B Sai Praneeth and Mohammed Siyaduttullah all coach in the US of America now – that is the primary time an Indian would be the head coach of a major badminton nation with a former world champion in its ranks.