BADMINTON
Abhijeet Naimpally
Abhijeet Naimpally
Current Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Current Academy: KSBA- Vasanthnagar, Galaxy club- Malleswaram, Phoenix club- Rajajinagar, JP courts- Sanjaynagar
Brief Profile: Abhijeet is a former international player with a highest world ranking of 89 and secured Bronze at Bangladesh Open International in 2013. With over 11 years of coaching experience, he trains students at multiple centres in Bangalore. One of his athletes represented India in Team and Individual event in World Junior Championships in Russia.
Ajay Kumar
Ajay Kumar
Current Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Current Academy: Suchitra Badminton academy, Hyderabad
Brief Profile: Ajay, in his playing career was ranked India no. 3 in singles, no. 2 in doubles & no. 1 in mixed doubles in the U-19 category. He was ranked as high as India no. 10 in singles in the Seniors category. He also won a bronze medal in singles at the Mauritius international tournament. Having been a coach for over two years, he has some talented young players and one of his athletes has won a gold medal in the U-15 Singapore international Tournament.
Chandan Kumar
Chandan Kumar
Current Location: Bahadurgarh, Haryana
Current Academy: Shining star badminton academy, HL city
Brief Profile: During his playing career Chandan Kumar featured prominently in the National circuit. After transitioning into coaching since 2017, Chandan has been training several talented Junior athletes. One of his athletes represented India at the Badminton Asia Junior event in Indonesia in 2019.
Deepak Amarnath
Deepak Amarnath
Current Location: Kannur, Kerala
Current Academy: Dream Badminton Arena, Kannur
Brief Profile: Deepak is a former 4 time Junior National Champion and was ranked as high as India no. 3 in the senior doubles & mixed doubles categories. With over two decades of coaching experience, he has produced several champions at the State and National level. One of his current athletes is a National School Games champion in the u-19 category.
Karthick Srinivasan
Karthick Srinivasan
Current Location: Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu
Current Academy: Hatsun Badminton Centre, Tamil Nadu
Brief Profile: Kathick was a singles and doubles player in the Junior circuit in his playing career, having reached the quarterfinals in doubles in the Junior National championship. With coaching experience of over 6 years, he currently trains several junior and sub-junior athletes and two of them have represented India at the Asian Badminton Championship.
Mayank Gole
Mayank Gole
Current Location: Pune, Maharashtra
Current Academy: Nikhil Kanetkar Badminton Academy, Pune
Brief Profile: During his playing career, Mayank had a career best singles ranking of 13 in the senior circuit and 5 in the Junior circuit. With around 10 years of coaching experience, Mayank trains several prominent Junior athletes who play at the National and International level and one of his athletes is Ranked world no. 2 at the u-19 level.
Shyamsundar Ramanathan
Shyamsundar Ramanathan
Current Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Current Academy: Samarth badminton academy, Chennai
Brief Profile: As an athlete, Shyamsundar held a best senior ranking of Tamil Nadu no.2 in the singles category. With over a decade of coaching experience under his belt, he has trained athletes who were ranked as high as no. 3 in the Senior National Singles circuit and has produced state champions.
Smriti Nagarkoti
Smriti Nagarkoti
Current Location: Almora, Uttarakhand
Current Academy: Sports Stadium Almora, affiliated with the Khelo India Programme at Almora (Uttarakhand) in association with the Sports Authority of India.
Brief Profile: The youngest coach in the batch, Smriti has represented India in the Syed Modi International and India Open in the mixed-doubles event. She currently coaches promising young players in Almora, Uttarakhand in association with Khelo India Programme & SAI.