From practice accident to Paris Paralympics last, Nitesh Kumar engineers path to brink of glory
Nitesh Kumar, the extremely expert towering shuttler from Haryana, downed Japan’s Fujihara Daisuke 21-16, 21-12 within the semifinals on the Chapelle Enviornment. (Screengrab through Paralympics)
Nitesh got here into the game with a useful construct past his left leg amputation, but in addition a popularity in Para circles for enjoying fancy badminton, and flashy strokes. One of the vital strokeful gamers, his overflowing expertise wanted route. Gopichand would assign three of his high coaches to rotate in shock periods. “He has good peak, and every part in defence, assault and strokes is nice,” explains coach Rajendra Kumar. “However we shuffled his periods, so as to add variations of three totally different taking part in types so he would get used to totally different gamers,” he mentioned. (READ MORE)