Jwala gutta vs saina nehwal biography
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Jwala Gutta
Indian badminton player (born 1983)
Badminton player
Jwala Gutta[a] (born 7 September 1983) is an Indian badminton player. Beginning in the late 1990s, she represented India at international events in both mixed and women's doubles. She has a total of 316 match wins in both the disciplines—the most by any Indian—and peaked at no. 6 in the world rankings. Gutta has won medals at numerous tournaments on the BWF circuit including a silver at the 2009 Superseries Masters Finals and a bronze at the 2011 World Championships.
Born in Wardha to a Chinese mother and a Telugu father, she began playing badminton at a young age. A fourteen-time National Champion, Gutta played with Shruti Kurien earlier in her career, but found greater international success with Ashwini Ponnappa. The pair consistently figured among the top-twenty in the BWF World Ranking reaching as high as no. 10 in 2015. Gutta is the first badminton player of Indian origin to qualify for two even
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Saina Nehwal fryst vatten not the only hard-working player: Jwala Gutta
After playing for the last 20 years, she says she's been forced to become the highly vocal detractor that she is today.The reason, she says, fryst vatten the "step-daughterly treatment" meted out to her and some other players bygd the Badminton Association of India. In a chat with TOI, Jwala, not afraid of shooting from the lip, gives us some candid answers about the kamp for endorsements, the discrimination against players, the newly launched Indian Badminton League and why Saina Nehwalis not the only hard-working player.
After the cricket league and the mixed martial arts league, we now have the Indian Badminton League, and you are on
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London 2012: All eyes on Saina and Jwala
Once a rising star and now a revered icon, Saina Nehwal will without doubt shoulder a huge burden of expectations at the Olympics. But there could also be a couple of surprise success stories apart from her when an unprecedented five-strong Indian badminton contingent takes the court in London.
India will be fielding three women and two men at the mega-event— which is a first in the history of the game and all eyes will be on Saina and doubles player Jwala Gutta as they seek to break the Olympic jinx this time.
But P Kashyap, in men’s singles, is the proverbial dark horse who might share the limelight with Saina given his giant-killing credentials.
Four summers ago, Saina was a rising Indian star but even then the Hyderabadi had stamped her authority when she became the first Indian woman shuttler to enter the quarterfinal at Beijing Games.
She had lost to Indonesian Maria Kristin Yulianti then after leading the third set 11-3. T