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BAI Set To Re-Appoint Mulyo Handoyo, Tan Kim Her As India바카라s Badminton Coaches By Year-End

Under Mulyo Handoyo, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Praneeth combined to win five Super Series titles in 2017. Tan Kim Her is responsible for the rise of India's doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy's at the top level.

BAI Set To Re-Appoint Mulyo Handoyo, Tan Kim Her As India바카라s Badminton Coaches By Year-End
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Indonesia바카라s Mulyo Handoyo and Malaysia바카라s Tan Kim Her are set to return as India바카라s singles and doubles badminton coaches with the national federation hoping to finalise their appointments by the end of this month. (More Badminton News)

Tough taskmaster Mulyo, who has coached Athens Olympic gold medallist Taufik Hidayat, had a brief stint in India and is credited for the success of men바카라s singles players like Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth and HS Prannoy in 2017.

Tan Kim Her, on the other hand, is the man responsible for forging India바카라s best doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, who under his guidance won the Commonwealth Games silver, played a vital role in the team gold in 2018 and also broke into world바카라s top 20.

바카라Mulyo and Tan Kim Her are among the few top names who applied for the posts after we advertised for it and BAI (Badminton Association of India) wants to avail their services as they have prior experience of working with our Indian players,바카라 BAI secretary Ajay Singhania told PTI.

BAI had advertised for the coaches바카라 posts on November 18 after men바카라s singles coach Agus Dwi Santoso departed last month, a few weeks before the completion of his contract.

바카라Mulyo and Tan have been in the Indian set up so we are favouring them and we are hoping to get their services from the India Open in January. Of course, it is yet to be finalised as we are still discussing the details,바카라 Singhania said.

Under Mulyo, Indian male shuttlers secured an unprecedented five Super Series titles in 2017, which included four titles by Srikanth and one by Praneeth.

바카라The contracts of all the coaches expire in December end, so we will have to seal the appointments by this month. Our chief coach Pullela Gopichand is discussing with the coaches on various issues such as salaries, accommodation etc..바카라

In his last stint, Mulyo didn바카라t complete his contract and quit in December 2017 to join the Singapore team, while Tan Kim Her, who had a contract till the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, resigned in 2019 and went on to coach the Japan national team.

With Tokyo Olympics in mind, BAI had roped in London Olympics silver medallist and former world No.1 Mathias Boe for the Indian pair of Satwik and Chirag, who won two of the three matches in their group at the Japanese capital.

Boe바카라s contract was till the Olympics but the Denmark great had said that he wanted to continue coaching the doubles players and had sent a detailed proposal to BAI.

Asked why he was not considered, Singhania said: 바카라Boe is a good coach but he couldn바카라t commit to a full time role, he wanted it more like a temporary basis which is something that couldn바카라t be worked out.바카라 India's next assignment is the BWF World Championships scheduled to begin on Sunday in Huelva, Spain.

While defending champion P V Sindhu바카라s coach Park Tae Sang is already in Spain, Indian coaches Siyadatullah and Arun Vishnu (doubles) left for Spain on Thursday and will be sharing the responsibility of the competing players. 

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