




How the poster girls of Indian badminton, P.V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal, fought for the attention of their beloved coach and mentor Pullela Gopichand. Exclusive extracts from a new book that looks at the back stories of these two great athletes-and at India’s prospects going into the Tokyo Olympic Games later this year. Has the early promise of Beijing 2008, the breakthroughs at London 2012, the humiliation of Rio 2016, and the soul-searching that followed in its aftermath, given India the wherewithal to break into the big league?
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