Anup Sridhar Presentation

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Anup Sridhar India No. 1 and World No. 24
Badminton player
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Personal Profile Age 24 (DoB April 11th,
1983) Height 6ft 3in Weight 80kg Home Town
Bangalore, Karnataka Training Base (India) TATA
Padukone Badminton Academy, Bangalore Ranking
(India) 1 Highest Ranking (World) 24
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• Most Significant Achievements
• 2007 Badminton World Championships
• Quarter-finalist.
• Lost to the reigning World No.1 and eventual
  winner Lin Dan of China.
• Third Indian, after Prakash Padukone and Pullela
  Gopichand, to reach this stage in a World
  Championships.
• Contd.

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• Most Significant Achievements
• Semi-finalist at the 2007 Asian Continental
  Championships
• Semi-finalist at the 2007 German Open
• Member of the Indian team which won the Bronze
  Medal in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
• Winner of 30th Hungarian International in 2005
• National Champion in 2005, 2006
• Currently Indias highest ranked player in Mens
  singles in the World rankings

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• Big Kills this year
• Taufik Hidayat at the World Championships
  Former
  World No. 1, World Champion in 2005 and Olympic
  Gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
• Sung Hwan Park at the German Open
  No. 1 Korean player. Semi-finalist at
  the 2007 China Open.
• Shoji Sato (No. 1 Japanese player) at the 2007
  Asian Continental Championships and 2008 Swiss
  Open Super Series.
• Joppein Bjoern at the German Open
  No. 1 German player.

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• In the news
• Anup Sridhar reaches career-best world ranking  
• http//www.hindu.com/2007/11/03/stories/2007110356
  571800.htm
• Anup Sridhar Indias No. 1 badminton player
  has now reached a career-high World ranking of 25
  as per the latest IBF list.
• Its about self-belief http//www.hinduonnet.com/
  thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file2007090150272700..h
  tmdatetss3035/prdtss
• Anup Sridhar had his best moments at the World
  Championship where he entered the quarterfinals.
  He, however, looks upon his performance as the
  beginning of things to come. I look forward to
  playing like this more often,
• Red-hot Anup in quarterfinals
  http//www.deccanherald.com/Content/Aug172007/spor
  ts2007081719642.asp
• The Indian showed nerves of steel to come out
  trumps from a neck-and-neck thriller 21-19,
  18-21, 21-15 and move into the last eight. .
• Sridhar lone Indian left in fray
• http//www.rediff.com/sports/2007/jul/05bad.htm

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World Ranking (2003 till date)
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World Ranking 2007
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• Regarding Anup
• He is very talented. He has good height. But
  after a certain stage, badminton is a mental
  game. So, it all depends on how he shapes up .
• - Pullela Gopichand (Indiatimes.com),
• Indian National Coach and Winner of the
  All-England Championships

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Anups Training Base Tata Padukone Badminton
Academy
Anup trains at the Tata Padukone Badminton
Academy, Bangalore. He is coached under the
able guidance of Prakash Padukone and U. Vimal
Kumar, two stalwarts of Indian badminton. More
information on the Academy is available at
www.tatapadukoneacademy.com
Anup with his coaches Prakash Padukone and Vimal
Kumar
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• Upcoming Events
• Malaysia Open in January
• Thomas Uber Cup German Open in February
• All England and Swiss Open in March
• Asian Continental Championships in April
• Olympic Games
  Beijing, China in August.

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the junior level, representing the India U-16's
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