Ok. Srikanth क्. स्रिकनथ् | BadmintonCentral

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Brothers Shrikanth and Nandagopal win in Thailand and Maldives respectively; earn reward from Gopi

Ok Nandagopal’s profession was rising steadily on the badminton circuit. His coaches in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, and on the Pullela Gopi Chand academy had been in settlement that he had the pure expertise and abilities to go the space; they noticed nice issues in his future.

That was until the day they noticed his brother Srikanth play. The racquet sport hadn’t actually appealed to Srikanth however seeing his brother accomplish that effectively, the youthful sibling determined to comply with go well with. The outcomes weren’t so nice and the choice to stop was all the time hovering inside his head.

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• A file image of Ok Srikanth, who gained the Thailand Open yesterday. (left) Ok Nandagopal gained the blended doubles in Maldives

However on his mother and father and brother’s insistence he determined to check out for Gopi’s academy and there the grasp coach noticed a spark on this farmer’s son. 5 years later it’s solely poetic that on the exact same day each the brothers fly again to Hyderabad from totally different factors of the world with a title in tow.

Although Srikanth’s title has extra grandeur than Nandagopal’s achievement, the 2 brothers lastly got here of age yesterday.

Srikanth, probably the most promising stars of the Gopi Chand academy, yesterday overpowered top-seeded native favorite Boonsak Ponsana 21-16 21-12 within the ultimate of the Thailand Open to win his maiden Grand Prix Gold title.

Throughout international locations Nandagopal and his blended doubles companion Ok Maneesha clinched the Maldives Badminton Problem title with a straight-game victory over Dae Sung Kim and Bo Kyung Oh of Korea in Male.

The pair from Andhra Pradesh registered a 21-16 23-21 win in 40 minutes. Srikanth took six minutes much less to dispense off the world quantity eight. The 20-year-old, who as soon as aspired to be a doubles participant, brings a totally different method to the only’s circuit.

He performs a quick recreation. His photographs are extra flat and faster, a capability participant’s develop within the doubles recreation. But he’s misleading close to the web, a expertise that was infused in his half a decade on the Gopi Chand academy.

It was only a matter of time

“The indicators had been there and it was only a matter of time. Srikanth has been persistently rising on the circuit. He has that spark in him.

After I first noticed him I felt he was very unorthodox and that he wanted a lot of high quality tuning so as to succeed. There was additionally the determining half by which self-discipline he was a lot suited to,” nationwide coach Gopi Chand instructed Mirror.

His wins within the junior circuit confirmed to Gopi that he was born for the singles circuit and his victory on the Maldives Worldwide final yr was an early signal of his prowess on the high stage. Srikanth initially made headlines when he claimed his first top-ten participant.

On the Indian Open in April, Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark turned Srikanth’s first large scalp. This week in Bangkok he has been in supreme type. Annexing the title aside he went by means of a line of high shuttlers with out even dropping a single recreation in any of his six matches.

Alongside the best way he took out the likes of Soo Hwang Jong of Korea, Jong’s compatriot and former India Open winner Son Wan Ho and at last the house star Ponsana. “It’s a terrific achievement as a result of this exhibits that the males’s gamers in India are lastly getting it collectively.

It’s been some time since a males’s participant gained a serious singles title overseas and Srikanth has proven that he’s the actual deal,” Gopi stated. “The truth is, Nandagopal’s win is not any much less.

They confronted groups from Indonesia, Korea and Chinese language Taipei to win that blended doubles title and that’s no much less achievement particularly when he and Maneesha have simply began enjoying collectively,” he added.

Srikanth has a really tender spoken manner and even after successful his title the joy was lacking from his voice. He was already pondering concerning the subsequent event in Singapore.

The truth is, he was extra happy to listen to that his older brother had gained. Although a step forward of his older brother, Srikanth nonetheless feels he’s following footsteps.
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► Males’s gamers in India are lastly getting it collectively. It’s been some time since a males’s participant gained a main singles title overseas and Srikanth has proven that he’s the actual deal