Vijayawada To Host National Badminton Championship

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VIJAYWADA: Once considered the cradle of badminton tournaments in Andhra Pradesh Vijayawada is eagerly looking forward to the 79th Senior National Badminton Championship scheduled to be held in the city in January-February, 2015 to revive its past glory.

After a long gap of 34 years, the city will be hosting the national badminton championship, which will be selection base for five international tournaments - German Open, All England Championship, French Open, India Open and Sudirman Cup.

 Since it is mandatory for all the players to play in the tournament for qualifying for the international tournaments, players like Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, K Srikanth, P Kashyap, Guru Sai Dutt, Anand Pawar, Ajay Jayaram and others are expected to play, which is generating much interest among the sports lovers in Vijayawada and elsewhere in AP.

 The event is being seen as the first step in revival of hoary past of the Vijayawada in conducting national and international badminton tournaments.  Remembering the heydays of badminton in Vijayawada and how the city become the training ground for many international players, Punnaiah Choudary K Ch, general secretary of Andhra Pradesh Badminton Association says it all started in 1976, when the South Zone Inter-State Badminton Tournament was organised at Electricity Board Hall.

 ™Likes of Prakash Padukone, the then reigning champion played in the tournament, which saw an overwhelming response. Considering the interest of people of Vijayawada in sports activity, the then district collector  Santhanam along with sub-collector AVS Reddy and Municipal Commissioner GP Rao took initative and saw to the funding for the construction of the sports ground in 20 acres, which today is known as IGMC Stadium,’’ he said.

The very team of officials, later on played a vital role in construction of Dandamudi Rajagopal Rao Indoor Stadium, ensuring that a GO issued the land given to MLA for construction of school gets cancelled and instead gets allocated for the construction of the Indoor Stadium. The works had commenced in 1979 and the indoor stadium with four badminton courts was ready by 1980.

The inaugural tournament at the stadium was the Senior National Badminton Championship and it witnessed a sensational victory of Syed Modi over Prakash Padukone, who had been holding the title for 9 continuous years till then.

Success of the event also scripted success of the stadium, which later on becomes seat of the Badminton Academy and in 90s; as many as 11 players who represented India internationally got trained at the Academy. However, since the Government changed in 2004, the downfall of the stadium commenced. In 2005, all sports academies across the state including badminton and other academics in Vijayawada were closed by the Government.

 ‘’In all 800 boys and girls were getting trained in different sports in about 5 different academies at that time and all of them got scuttled  out,’’ Chowdary said.

 At around the same time, Pullela Gopichand started his academy in Hyderabad and the focus of Badminton got shifted their. Except for Hyderabad, no major badminton tournament was organised anywhere else in the state, thus
 denying Vijaywada of its glory.

‘’We are eagerly looking for the tournament and are hoping to see the past glory of badminton again in the city,’’ D Srinivas, a middle aged sports enthusiast said. Stadium authorities are now busy making the arrangement for the tournament.

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