Success of Indian shuttlers is due to facilities and correct guidance

Former Indian National Badminton player Vimal Kumar who is the Present Director of Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in Bangalore said the correct guidance and providing good facilities are the reasons for the success of Indian Badminton.

Vimal Kumar who played with former Indian number one and National champion Prakash Padukone said this in an exclusive interview with the Daily News. We started this Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in 1994 and from then up-to-date we have done lot of work to develop India Badminton and as a result today India have Olympic medal champion as well as world level champions We are working independently and no involvement with National Badminton Federation of India .But this Academy is open to any shuttler.We have some standard to select players for this and standard of the players always high level to get service from our well qualified Badminton coaches who do everything for the selected shuttlers said Vimal Kumar.

I played for India from 1979 for 15 years I gave my service to India team till1994 Prakash Padukone my self and Vivek Kumar are three good friends from those days while former State champion Vivek is the man who invested more to set up this Badminton Academy.Vivek is dedicated to Prakash Padukone.

There are more five or six sports in this Academy . Football, Swimming , Badminton,Cricket and Hockey and Vivek Kumar planned to different centres to locate here .First we started Badminton Academy and then other Academics. some Sri Lankan shuttlers got service from this Academy.Niluka Karunaratne was able to get service from this . We saw two Sri Lanka badminton players take part in Indian challenge International tournament played here this time . The 16 acre land for this Academy and Vivek Kumar invested and dedicated for Prakash and Rahul . Actually many National players produced from here. Indonesia, Malaysia, Denmark, France , England players come for training and very few Sri Lankan among them. Vimal Kumar further said we haven’t any commercial programs here .

We have a talent search program and select players to this Academy. Then we give all facilities high standard badminton courts ,very good Badminton coaches , medical service provided by Doctors, Physiotherapists and Masseurs and food and accommodation also given to the players .

We normally conduct tournaments to give chance for the players.We conducted many National championship but this is a mainly training centre. Indian Olympic bronze medalist Saina Nehwal 2012 and P.V Sindhu silver medalist in 2016 were also trained here

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