Top brass: Ronnie Sehgal, General Secretary, Indian Padel Federation; Sneha Abraham Sehgal, President, IPF; Pullela Gopichand, Badminton legend and Chief National coach of India; Supriya Devgun, Founder & Managing Director, Badminton Gurukul in the course of the IPF Boarding Meeting.
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For the promoters of Padel, which mixed the most effective parts of tennis and squash and nicknamed as ‘tennis with walls’ and ‘squash in the Sun’, they couldn’t have discovered a greater proposition than having former All England champion P. Gopi Chand becoming a member of the Indian Padel Federation of their promotional actions to provide the game a contemporary fillip and make it extra standard throughout the nation.
Supriya Devgun, former bronze medallist on the 2017 BWF World Senior Badminton Championship, joins the Indian Padel Federation as a key Board Member.
In an unique chat with The Hindu, Gopi, the chief nationwide badminton coach, stated Padel supplied the dynamics, selecting up the most effective options from different sports activities like tennis, squash and even badminton, which must be an enormous hit within the days to return.
“Well, Padel has a World Tour and that speaks of the growing popularity,” he stated.
“The best part is that it is played on a court which is one-third of the size of a tennis court between two doubles combinations and significantly means occupying very less space with no entry barrier as a kid and a 60-year-old can indulge in the sport,” Gopi stated.
“Yes, definitely, at the professional level, the demands and the guidelines will be different for sure. But, for anyone familiar with other racquet sports, this is a wonderful concept,” he stated.
“As a proponent of encouraging more and more to play any sport, I am really pleased to be associated with this as it would also help the society in ensuring that the kids spend time on something which should lead to a healthy and competitive lifestyle,” Gopi stated. “Exactly, for this reason, I don’t feel time or my energies will be a constraint as I love to be involved in promoting sport of any kind,” he added.
On his strategies for making Padel extra standard, Gopi felt maybe efforts on creating the infrastructure at completely different ranges and never simply at colleges and likewise organising as many occasions as attainable must be an amazing starting.
“Well, any sport needs a coaching system in place with scientific back-up and making optimum use of any technology for better results and Padel should be no exception,” he stated.
Gopi additionally hinted that among the common India shuttlers may also strive their hand at this sport as some form of a break from their each day coaching schedules on the identical time to remain match whereas having fun with this sport additionally.
