Mathias Boe to teach Chirag Shetty, Satwik Rankireddy forward of Tokyo Olympics

Olympic silver medallist Mathias Boe of Denmark will coach the World No. 10 Indian males’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy within the run as much as the Tokyo Games.
The resolution to rent the providers of Boe was taken on Friday by the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) Mission Olympic Cell below the Target Olympic Podium Scheme.
Boe, a silver medallist on the 2012 London Olympics, has been roped in on the request of Chirag and Satwik.
Satwik and Chirag are at present ninth within the Race to Tokyo with 16 pairs eligible.
During his tenure, Boe may also assist different doubles workforce below the TOPS — blended doubles pair of Satwik and Ashwini Ponnappa and girls’s doubles duo of Ashwini and Sikki Reddy.
Boe had had a distinguished doubles profession, throughout which he additionally gained the All-England Championships twice — in 2011 and 2015 — and was a silver medal on the 2013 World Championships.
The concept to rope in Boe was mooted by Chirag, who has partnered the Dane in some occasions up to now and educated with him in Mumbai when the Badminton Tour was suspended.
“I have played with him and he is a mentor, having guided me earlier. Working with him will definitely help us in the Olympic year,” Chirag stated.
“Getting to work with Boe will give us a huge psychological boost.”
Satwik, who recovered from COVID-19 in August final yr, too was delighted with the appointment.
“We were confident when we played our second tournament in Bangkok. We are fit and we have the fire in us but we need to do much better mentally. Boe’s appointment will help us win tight matches,” he stated.
Chirag and Satwik had a breakthrough season in 2019 after they gained the Thailand Open Super 500 and was runner-up on the French Open 750.
The pair additionally made a maiden semifinal look at Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 occasion final week.
The TOPS has allotted Rs 25.54 lakh every for the shuttlers since 2016.