Anmol is brave and intelligent: Gopichand

Anmol Kharab is a fearless and intelligent player and her emergence is refreshing for Indian badminton gushed chief National coach Pullela Gopichand after the teenagers impressive show at the Asia Team ChampionshipsThe 17yearold from Faridabad humbled world number 29 Natsuki Nidaira in the deciding fifth match against Japan a win that carried India into firstever final in the prestigious tournamentAnmol who won the senior national champion in December 2023 had also notched up a thrilling threegame win over Chinas Wu Luo Yu on Wednesday in their group matchAlso Read IND vs ENG 3rd Test Jadeja adds another milestone to his name during the matchThis is her first major international assignment I think the result of the two matches is a testimony that she can beat top players To take the pressure on and show that kind of nerve it is very refreshing She is fearless The kind of strokes that she plays it all come naturally to her Gopichand told PTIShe is reading the game well you can see her intelligence She played beautifully Of course opponents will read her game in time and thats where she needs to rework on her mistakes but she has been phenomenal She fought really well and she is naturally brave and intelligentIndian women team had a phenomenal run this week defeating China Hong Kong and Japan to enter their firstever final and Gopichand was also gung ho about the performance in the Continental championshipTo beat China and Japan I dont think many teams can say that so really happy There is great energy in the dug out and it showed literally during the matchBefore this tie if you would have told me that Nozomi Okuhara would be beaten and we will make a comeback after Sindhus loss I would have said little chance but it has been a great run so farThe match against China was a fantastic win The morale was high in general Good to see Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly pulling out the match and the way Anmol played it was amazing Ashmitas was also a fantastic winAlso Read IN PHOTOS Quickest batsmen to 32 Test centuriesAfter PV Sindhu suffered a shock defeat in the opening match doubles pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly produced a 2117 1621 2220 win over world no 6 Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida to bring India back into the fivematch rubberShida and Matsuyama are a top pair and Treesa and Gayatri had to work hard it was close and tough match They have beaten China and Japan in two solid matches After losing at India Open to comeback and win I mean this will do them a lot of goodIndia will face Thailand in the summit clash and Gopichand feels the singles matches will be key They have top doubles teams so doubles will be tough but we have edge in singles and we are again counting on Anmol So God willing we will win tomorrow It is another tough matchThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever