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State-of-the-art training plan for 40 players

Sports Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry on Tuesday decided to provide state-of-the-art training and exposure to 40 badminton players in order to help them excel at the international level.

Under the scheme of ‘Preparation of Indian Teams for Commonwealth Games 2010,’ 35 players — 19 men and 16 women — were identified to be included in the ‘core group’ of sportspersons. Besides, 10 coaches — eight Indian and two foreign — were selected to guide the players.

A steering committee of the Ministry asked the Badminton Association of India (BAI) to provide names of a few more players as training would be provided to 20 shuttlers each in men and women’s categories.

Besides, the BAI would submit names of the supporting staff — such as sports analyst, exercise physiologist, physiotherapist, masseur and masseuse.

The training programme will be held at the SAI Centres in Lucknow, Bangalore and Gandhinagar.

Selected players and coaches:

Players: Men: Anup Sridhar, Chetan Anand, Arvind Bhatt, Anand Pawar, P. Kashyap, Ajay Jayaram, Guru Sai Dutt, Abhimanyu Singh, Saurabh Verma, Aditya Prakash, Sanave Thomas, Rupesh Kumar, V. Diju, Akshay Dewalkar, Alwyn Francis, Shankar Goan, Arun Vishnu, K. Tarun, Pranav Chopda. Women: Saina Nehwal, Aditi Mutatkar, Trupti Murgunde, Gayatri Vartak, Arundhati Pantawane, Sikki Reddy, P.C. Thulasi, Prajakta Sawant, Jwala Gutta, Shruti Kurien, Ashwini Ponnappa, Nitya Sosale, P. Jyotsna, Anjali Kalita, Shweta Kelkar, Pradnya Gadre. Coaches: P. Gopi Chand, Sanjiv Sachdeva, Surinder Mahajan, Vijaydeep Singh, Ajay Kanwar, Bhaskar Babu, Siddharth Jain, Manjusha Kanwar, Atik Jauhari (Indonesia), Jason Krufort (Australia).