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The beautiful indestructible mind of Carolina Marin, the Olympic contender

[ad_1] The visible ingredients of Carolina Marin’s success are often unpalatable to many badminton watchers. She screams and shouts. She rushes the serve. She delays the serve. At other times, she saunters off to towel herself dry of the sweat from her considerable hard work. There is a yell-mode that pierces genteel silences of badminton courts. There isn’t an obvious zen-mode, like the Far East Asian players or deep-breath aggression of Saina Nehwal, that will stick to decorum and still win matches – though none has peeked into her brain where stillness and clarity might well be reigning, with her expressive face just a decoy. She doesn’t bow like Intanon Ratchanok or Nozomi Okuhara, or keep a lid on her emotions like Chen Yufei or Tai Tzu Ying. Her attacking stomping doesn’t disarm li...

PV Sindhu needed a fitness reality check — Prakash Padukone did not mince words

[ad_1] Someone needed to tell PV Sindhu that her target in life ought to be an Olympics gold, not to be content with a silver and bronze, resting on her laurels. Someone also needed to tell Sindhu that to even dream of the said Paris gold, her fitness was nowhere near perfect six months ago.Prakash Padukone didn’t mince words. If he had to re-start travelling with a player after 25 years, he needed that player to meet his standards of excellence. “Prakash sir told Sindhu (and Lakshya Sen) in no uncertain terms, that he demands that they take responsibility for their careers. He told them they were privileged to have a good team but shouldn’t expect everyone will do things for them. Sindhu and Lakshya were never not in the best shape. But now they are in incredible shape,” informs Viren R...

In women’s singles, winning All England title will be tougher than the Olympics

[ad_1] Blasphemous as it sounds, but it might be easier to win the Olympics than it is to win the All England this year if you are a women’s singles player. Let’s take you on a breathless matrix of head-to-head scores of various contenders, that is the gold-churning cauldron called women’s singles ahead of the Super 1000 tournament at Arena Birmingham, which begins on March 14. After a couple of years of some top names missing out either due to Covid or more owing to busted knees, the WS draw this year is a full-house with patched back joints and tendons and gleaming ambitions. Carolina Marin is back in full fitness. If familiarity is your thing, it is important to note that PV Sindhu and Nozomi Okuhara – those World Champions from the last decade, start unseeded this year, so crammed is...