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Are Indian Shuttlers on road to break the Chinese Dominance?

Today P.V Sindhu won the World Championships at Scotland.Now the big question is Can the Indian shuttlers break the long dominanace of Chinese players.


The BWF World Championship 2017 saw the best performance by India in the World Championships.India managed to take 1 bronze and 1 silver in women's singles and nearly missing a medal in men's singles.The whole credit goes to three shuttlers P.V Sindhu,Saina Nehwal and K.Srikant.Firstly talking about P.V Sindhu What a tournament she had.On her road to finals she beat    two Chinese players .World Championships have always been extremely good for Sindhu.She has managed to win   bronze medals by consistently reaching semis since 2013 .In an event which used to be dominated by Chinese players like Wang Shixian,Li Xuerui,Wang Yihan ,Sindhu has constantly been able to carve her path out.Next is Saina Nehwal.What a tournament she had.At the time people thought her days are gone,she comes back like a tigress.All eyes were on Sindhu in this event but Saina proved herself and eventually managed to win her first World Championship medal after so many years.I wished if she could have beaten Yokuhara in the semis,which would have meant an all Indian affair which used to be all Chinese affair in the past.Thirdly K.Srikant was again heartbroken in the quarter finals by Son Wan Ho of Korea.This has been a second time in succession ,first being the Olympics, where Srikant lost in the quarter finals of a major event.He has been playing extremely well in the last few months and has managed to win three superseries events.But I believe that this young player has a lot of potential to win a medal in  major events.India's performance in this World Championship has been outstanding but the place where India has failed to make a mark is the doubles events.Performance in doubles events has been extremely poor.In fact in doubles events Indian players have never been good except for the 2010 World Championships where Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa won a bronze.This has always been a major problem for India.This has also affected India's performance in Sudhimiran and The Thomas and Uber Cup.Though a specialised doubles coach has been appointed for this matter but this has not helped till now. Indian Coaches need to find and nurture talented doubles badminton players.
Finally this heroic performance by Indian shuttlers must have inspired many badminton players across the country.Indian players have surely broken Chinese dominance in the the Women's singles event and have shown a great promise in the Men's singles category.The only place where the Indian shuttlers need to improve is the doubles events,which I am sure national coach Pullela Gopichand must be taking very seriously.I believe the day when Indians start dominating this sport is not very far.

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