Supriya Devgun, former bronze medallist at the 2017 BWF World Senior Badminton Championship, joins the Indian Padel Federation as a key Board Member. In an exclusive chat with The Hindu, Gopi, the chief national badminton coach, said Padel offered the dynamics, picking up the best features from other sports like tennis, squash and even badminton, which should be a big hit in the days to come. “Well, Padel has a World Tour and that speaks of the growing popularity,” he said. On his suggestions for making Padel more popular, Gopi felt perhaps efforts on creating the infrastructure at different levels and not just at schools and also organising as many events as possible should be a great beginning. Gopi also hinted that some of the regular India shuttlers might also try their hand at this sport as some sort of a break from their daily training schedules at the same time to stay fit while enjoying this sport also.

Source: The Hindu June 07, 2023 15:27 UTC