New Delhi, Jan 19 (PTI) Star shuttlers Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty enjoyed a glorious run in 2023, making them firm favourites for men’s doubles badminton gold medal at the Paris Olympics.
The ace duo’s storied season included a lot of firsts in Indian badminton: Asian Games gold, Asian Championships title, a Super 1000 title, and the world number one ranking.
Besides that, they also won super 500 and 300 crowns in Korea and Switzerland and had a runner-up finish at China Masters super 750.
Satwik and Chirag made a good start to the season, finishing second best at Malaysia Super 1000 last week, and a very important factor behind their success has been the mental toughness showed by them in extremely difficult situations.
For more than a year now, Satwik has been working with sport & performance psychologist Shree Advani, who is part of the panel of experts of Go Sports Foundation. Chirag, too, has a mind coach.
“I’m not there to tell him anything new. It’s like gold. You cannot manufacture gold, you can only discover gold. I just helped him in that process of digging deep and finding his gold,” Advani said during an interaction with
Source: PTI News
