Paris Olympics 2024: Prakash Padukone Predicts Three Medals From Indian Shuttlers

New Delhi: Badminton legend and ace shuttler PV Sindhu’s mentor, Prakash Padukone believes that India have a sturdy hazard of bagging three medals in badminton within the Paris Olympics along with a hat-trick of medals for Sindhu. India has despatched a seven-member badminton squad along with the intense-flying males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and double Olympic medallist Sindhu.

Padukone recounted Sindhu is faring properly for her ancient 0.33 consecutive Olympic medal in Paris.

“That’s what we scan and hoping for. She has labored specifically sophisticated for that. Then all over again, at this level, one simply is specifically not going to commit obviously. Her preparations have long past properly, and she is playing properly in prepare classes. So, in phrases of preparations, all the items has been great,” he told JioCinema.

The veteran shuttler, a former All-England champion and World’s pinnacle player in his heydays elaborated that he is focusing on making developments to Sindhu’s ways and manner on the courtroom and she has additionally elevated a lot beneath his steering.

“I'm focusing on ways and manner on the courtroom, on what strokes to make use of when, and a bit to do with the thoughts. About 9 months beforehand, she turned right into a bit low on self belief as a consequence of time-honored instructing modifications and no longer being capable to realize what turned into going fallacious.

“We’ve labored on her intellectual vitality and manner, guaranteeing she makes increased use of the applicable strokes. We’ve tried to shrink on blunders and playing share badminton — awareness when to assault, deal with, and play trustworthy. So it will possibly actually well be in the tip all coming by approach of, but it remains to be visible if she can reproduce that taste at some level of the Olympics,” recounted Padukone, who runs the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in Bengaluru.

No topic Sindhu failing to win any title so some distance this year, Padukone feels that her potential to shine in crunch conditions will help India’s most beneficial female sportspersons on the Olympics bring definitely the right out of her. Sindhu is primarily primarily the most essential Indian female sportsperson to win two Olympic medals, a silver at Rio in 2016 and a bronze in Tokyo.

“Definitely, she has no longer been at her best not too lengthy ago, this may restrict the stress on her. Expectations are restrict, and even accomplishing the quarterfinals will reasonably most normally be visible positively. Then all over again I'm watching past that. If she is capable to reproduce the taste, like what she’s doing in prepare, I feel she’ll do increased than in past tournaments.

“The respect between avid gamers on the pinnacle is so little and it additionally consists of about going by approach of stress within the Olympics, and Sindhu has a bonus as she has obtained two Olympic medals. We retailer reminding her to deal along with her activity, and the consequence will reasonably most normally be good,” he recounted.

Within the tip, Padukone picked Rankireddy and Shetty within the males’s doubles, Sindhu in adult women’s singles and Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy in males’s singles as one can take into account medal contenders.

“Now we have a hazard in all three things to do: males’s singles, adult women’s singles and males’s doubles. The boys’s doubles pair, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been very general and have overwhelmed pinnacle avid gamers. Additionally they have a pretty good draw.

“Lakshya Sen has a sophisticated crew, but he has within the past overwhelmed his crew opponents Jonatan Christie, Kevin Cordon and Julien Carraggi so it relies on his decreasing-facet taste. It’s his first Olympics, but he shouldn’t be demanding about that and retailer in mind this as every completely diversified tournament. HS Prannoy has no longer been within definitely the right taste, but most normally times it will possibly actually well be capable to be a blessing in conceal as there's little weight of expectations and one can too realize a system to attain the height now, it will possibly actually well be capable to go the two procedures.

“We are definitely contenders in these three things to do. Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto in adult women’s doubles have a sophisticated draw, but in the event that they are capable to qualify extra, so that it will possibly actually well be basic to reasonably most normally be icing on the cake,” he concluded.

Badminton suits on the Paris Olympics will beginning out on Saturday (July 27).