Ahmedabad’s action now unfolds on blue-brown pickleball courts, lit up like cricket stadiums, with games running well past ...

The All England Championships, badminton's oldest and most prestigious tournament, have always been a white whale for Indian ...

The comments come amid a debate triggered by national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand's recent statement that middle-class parents should think hard before encouraging children to take up sports.

In a week when India’s national coach Pullela Gopichand went fairly bonkers giving middle class athletes a dose of realism, asking them to keep academics as back-up, if you wanted to secure a better ...

Has Gopichand simply put into words the fears that haunt every aspiring athlete and their family? Gopichand, the second Indian to win the prestigious All England Championship in 2001, stated in an ...

His reply follows reports of chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand saying financial security is a prerequisite for pursuing sports. Ramana, who has played volleyball at the national ...

And we’re very, very pissed off." – Tyler Durden, Fight Club. The odds of a Pullela Gopichand interview commencing with a Fight Club quote are negligible, if not nil. Yet, there’s an ...

This is the unspoken struggle that former badminton champion and renowned coach Pullela Gopichand seeks to address—a call for an exit strategy for athletes who do not make it to the elite level or ...

Badminton icon Pullela Gopichand had recently courted controversy for his comment suggesting that only those kids who came from affluent backgrounds should take up sport as a profession. In an ...

The comments come amid a debate triggered by national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand's recent statement that middle-class parents should think hard before encouraging children to take up sports.