PV Sindhu Coach: Having helped PV Sindhu reach greater heights, Park Tae-sang made an official announcement of parting ways with Indian badminton ace. Park helped Sindhu clinched a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and then a gold at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Tae-sang took to his official Instagram handle to make the announcement.
Park Tae-sang’ in his message wrote, “ Hello, it’s been a while since I said hello. I came back to Hyderabad a few days ago. And I want to say thank you to everyone who worried about my father. To be honest, my father’s condition is not good yet. So I felt heavy walking back to India. And I’d like to talk about my relationship with @pvsindhu1 , which many people have asked about”.
He added, “She has made disappointing moves in all recent matches, and as a coach, I feel responsible. So she wanted a change and said she would find a new coach. I decided to respect and follow her decision. I’m sorry that I can’t be with her until the next Olympics, but now I’m going to support her from afar. I will remember every moment with her. I would like to thank everyone who has been supporting and encouraging me”.
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PV Sindhu coach Park Tae-sang resigns
Park over the role of PV Sindhu’s coach towards the end of 2019. Both Sindhu and Park formed a formidable partnership winning bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics, women’s singles gold medal at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham . Under Park Tae-Sang, Sindhu also went onto win three BWF World Tour tiles in 2022 – the Syed Modi International, Swiss Open and Singapore Open.
PV Sindhu made her return from stress fracture on her ankle however she faced first round defeats in both, Malaysia Open and India Open. Following the ouster from the Malaysia Open, Sindhu had defended Park and insisted that the first game back from injury was always going to be difficult.
Speaking to Hindustan Times on sidelines of the Indian Open Sindhu said, “After the injury, coming back itself is a really hard thing. It’s not so easy. My coach put up his feelings because, for the last five months, we haven’t played. I feel we need to take one match at a time. We need to be happy that we actually attempted to play after an injury. By god’s grace, I hope everything will be fine and there will be good days,”
Former All England Open winner to coach PV Sindhu
Following Park Tae-sang’s departure PV Sindhu will be assisted in her preparation for the upcoming All England Championship by former Malaysian shuttler Hafiz Hashim. Pradeep Raju, head of Suchitra Academy, while speaking to Malaysian newspaper The Star said that Hashim has joined as a coach after resigning from his role as junior coach with the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM).
He said, “We wanted to make sure our athletes at Suchitra had a great coach. He’s a former All England champ who has played at the highest level and has the knowledge. Anyone who’s played at that level knows how to face challenges and adapt and win,”. Sindhu will begin her quest for a maiden All-England title against Zhang Yiman and is in the same quarter as He Bingjiao and Tai Tzu Ying.
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