New Delhi: His grandfather was among those who lost their lives during the second wave of Covid-19 in India and doubled the Badminton Chirag Shetty said it was his Olympic dream that helped him escape from sadness.
During a four-day break from training in Mumbai in April, Chirag lost his motherly grandfather to Covid-19, who also infected his uncle and no one could attend the funeral.
“It is a difficult phase,” Shuttler, who will go to Tokyo on Saturday with the first batch of the Indian contingent, remembered during the interview to PTI.
“In April, when the situation was very bad in India, seeing so many people died because Covid was difficult.
In my family, I lost my mother’s grandfather, it was a difficult time,” he said.
“But the good thing is I can practice, so I can release myself from him, badminton is very helpful.
But it’s a very difficult phase.” More than three months have passed since the losses but Covid-19 continued to bring havoc in the lives of people around the world and Chirag said the athletes who traveled to Tokyo were also not immune to the fear of the virus.
“Playing at the Olympics is the highest honor but at this time, with a pandemic still ongoing, everyone is rather afraid of false positives coming out.
So we don’t know how it is in Tokyo,” he said.
“Not only me, all athletes will be a little afraid of the situation there because of the false positives we face in Thailand,” he added referring to false positive cases that affected the players in Thailand Open and the All England championship.
, Does it affect training too? “It must be difficult to train, first because there are not many tournaments.
In April and May, the situation is very bad and there is a lock, and training in difficult conditions is difficult but we are trapped,” said Chirag.
The 23-year-old child from Mumbai felt this global health crisis could also have an impact on the performance at the Olympics but he tried to stay positive.
“Surely, it can affect the performance of the Olympics but personally we need to remember, that if the tournament must continue to advance, then we must take the test every day.” We have to see a brighter side even as long as a pandemic, an event as big as an Olympic is ongoing and we must keep ourselves safe as much as possible, the former world No.
1 and the London Olympic silver silver.
“Training is really good with Mathias so far.
It’s 5-6 months and we really can work on certain fields such as defense,” Chirag said.
The Indian duo has worked with three different coaches – Kim Tan Malaysia, and Boe-in Flandy in recent years.
“One different thing between the three coaches is that Mathias is far more technical.” There are many similarities between Tan and him, while Flandy has a power-based training program.
He used to encourage us to physical aspects, while the other two made us do court training to improve us technically.
“Chirag said Mathias had helped them to give more thoughts on their punches and understood how to deal with important matching situations.” I thought if Someone wants to be a complete player, you need to know all the tricks, you can master some but you can’t hold on to the things you fence, you need a few more things on your armor.
“You have to be ready if your ‘A’ game doesn’t work, that’s what we learned from Mathias and also play in an important stage, how he sees the situation and executes the strategy, it is something we can learn from him.” Chirag said the training experience at Under various trainers will embrace them well at the Olympics.
“We have been fortunate enough to learn from Asian and European coaches.
Hopefully this put us in a favorable position.
We have been practicing very hard,” he said.
Duo has been placed in Group A in addition to the top seed and Indonesian duo from Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, who also finished above in the race to Tokyo.
Standings, and the world No.
3 Taipei China Lee and Wang Chi-Lin.
Ben Lane and Sean Vendy are the fourth partner in group A.
“Draw is quite competitive but if you want to play at the Olympics and want to reach the next stage, you must defeat the best in the world, so we consider it a challenge,” he signed.