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How’s the Josh? Badminton star Chirag Shetty shares screenshot from well-known Thomas Cup profitable WhatsApp group

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Indian badminton participant and one of the vital essential a part of India’s Thomas Cup profitable crew, Chirag Shetty has shared the screenshots from their well-known WhatsApp group. The Indian shuttlers have spoken about this little initiative a number of time after profitable the trophy and acknowledged how that group purchased the crew nearer.

Sharing the screenshot on Twitter, Shetty wrote, “30/04/2022 we made the group. 15/05/2022 we actually got it home. Name of the group “It’s coming home TUC” . P.S It’s an precise SS of our chat! #thomascup”

30/04/2022 we made the group. 15/05/2022 we truly bought it house. Name of the group “It’s coming home TUC” . P.S It’s an precise SS of our chat! #thomascup pic.twitter.com/Wb8bG3rbcI

— Chirag Shetty (@Shettychirag04) May 17, 2022

Shetty, who partnered Satwiksairaj Rankireddy for the primary doubles within the ultimate match saved 4 match factors to win an important sport. The tight win gave India a 2-0 lead within the finals earlier than Kidambi Srikanth got here and defeated Jonathan Christie to win the trophy for India.

After India’s win, India’s third singles participant, who pulled off a miracle within the semi-final of the event – HS Prannoy, had mentioned that the group was named “It’s coming home.”

“We had this WhatsApp group set up just after the Thomas Cup team was decided. I created the group. We thought that we need a group to have open conversations about everything regarding the tournament. It definitely helped us because everybody was open to saying anything in the group, discuss freely. The name was ‘it’s coming home’. I am glad that the Thomas Cup is actually home now,” Prannoy mentioned.

“It was really important to have a good vibe around us and have open conversations about each day’s performance. On tour, 95 percent of the time, we play individually,” the 29-year-old shuttler had additional added.

“Everything started falling in place, once we came here. Everybody wanted this to happen for India. We knew we hadn’t done well in the team events. We never had a good history in team events. We wanted to change it. We wanted everyone to be scared of us. I think we wanted everybody to know we are world-beaters. I can’t be more happier,” concluded Prannoy.

Earlier, Kidambi Srikanth, in an interview with the Badminton World Federation had talked in regards to the group. He mentioned that India knew that they had been succesful to attaining the victory they usually simply wanted to again one another to get it completed.

“This would possibly sound slightly dramatic. But you realize, after I was in Korea for the Korea Masters, and the next week we had choice trials instantly after these trials, when the crew bought introduced, we created a (WhatsApp) group titled ‘We’ll Bring It Home’, or one thing like that.

“This happened a week before the tournament started. So yeah we always thought we are capable, but we only had to be consistent. Coming here, it was a fantastic team and we had great atmosphere. We were a happy team, and we were really supporting each other and backing each other,” Srikanth advised BWF.

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