PV Sindhu requests SAI to nominate Muhammad Hafiz Hashim as coach

PV Sindhu requests SAI to nominate Muhammad Hafiz Hashim as coach [ad_1]

PV Sindhu has requested the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) and Badminton Affiliation of India (BAI) to assign former All England champion Muhammad Hafiz Hashim as her coach till the 2024 Paris Olympics.

PV Sindhu despatched a letter to the authorities on Monday asking the Malaysian to be appointed as her coach beneath the Goal Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS)(PTI)

The 2-time Olympic medallist despatched a letter to the authorities on Monday asking the Malaysian to be appointed as her coach beneath the Goal Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS). She has been verbally assured that her request shall be granted. Sindhu, 27, has been coaching with Hashim for the previous two weeks on the Suchitra Badminton Academy (SBA) and the Gachibowli Stadium in Hyderabad.

“She has been loving it. She began coaching beneath Hafiz after getting back from the Indonesia Open (in mid-June). Hafiz will journey along with her to Korea Open and Japan Open in July,” stated SBA co-founder and director Pradeep Raju.

The 40-year-old Hashim was employed by SBA — the place Sindhu goes for her energy and conditioning coaching beneath Srikanth Verma — in February. Hashim received the All England Open in 2003 and the Commonwealth Video games males’s singles gold in Manchester in 2002. He was junior coach with the Badminton Affiliation of Malaysia (BAM) earlier than accepting a two-year contract with SBA.

“Sindhu is an integral a part of SBA and is aiming for a hat-trick of particular person Olympic medals which has by no means been achieved earlier than. Since Hafiz is a part of our academy, we are going to attempt to give our greatest sources to Sindhu to attain her and Inia’s Olympic dream,” added Raju.

The previous world champion, beneath Hashim, has been sparring with India No. 3 Kartikey Gulshan Kumar, No. 4 Ansal Yadav and Siddhartha Mishra.

Sindhu’s letter was forwarded by BAI to SAI whose inside committee will approve the appointment probably in every week’s time.

The event comes after Sindhu parted methods with Park Tae-sang, who joined in late 2019, in February. Beneath the South Korean, Sindhu achieved one in every of her greatest successes when she turned solely the second particular person Indian athlete (wrestler Sushil Kumar was the primary) to win two Olympic medals after claiming a bronze in Tokyo.

A five-time World Championship medallist, Sindhu was out of motion for nearly six months after successful the Commonwealth Video games gold in Birmingham final yr as a consequence of a stress fracture in her left foot.

Her return to the circuit beneath SAI coach Vidhi Chaudhary hasn’t been very fruitful, exiting as many as seven tournaments within the first couple of rounds. Her solely first rate runs got here on the Spain Masters, the place she reached the ultimate, and Malaysia Masters, the place she misplaced within the semi-finals.

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