Arun Vishnu latest Indian badminton coach to quit set-up for financial reasons
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand were on the brink of entering the Top 10, and coach Arun Vishnu had poured his entire effort and mindspace into getting the duo to click, bringing them till there, when he decided to bow out.“I wish they were World No.9 a few weeks ago,” he said in mock-rueing, but laughing as the women’s doubles pair cracked the Top 10 this week. “But it’s a good feeling to have helped them, starting from scratch,” the silent worker who supervised every training session till the 2023-end World Tour Finals, said.
But financial and family commitments dictated that he move away from the final stage of their ascent to the Top 10. “I will miss coaching at the top level but then again, we have to take care of our families,” he would say, speaking from Nagpur, where he has relo...