Hailing the consistently top notch show by the current lot of Indian shuttlers, badminton legend Nandu Natekar endorsed another great Prakash Padukone’s oft-held view that the racquet sport is going through a golden era in the country. “Very true, that it’s the golden era of the Indian badminton. “It’s a tremendous achievement and they deserve all the kudos,” said the first Indian to win a badminton title overseas in 1956. You should keep on watching (others play),” remarked Natekar, who won six national men’s singles titles, as many doubles titles and five mixed doubles crowns an unparallelled feat. Pradhan also touched upon a statistical point that Maharashtra has not produced a national champion in men’s singles other than Natekar and Rajeev Bagga (1991).

Source: Hindustan Times May 13, 2018 06:45 UTC