Although the 25-year-old has not spoken publicly after failing to secure his desired move. According to sources, John became heavily involved in team selections and added six players to the squad for India’s Europe tour last month against Oltmans’ wishes. eliver better results than Roelant Oltmans as interim coach after the Dutchman was sacked as chief coach of the men’s national team following a string of unimpressive showings. Why the Malaysians love Kidambi Srikanth, and other sights and sounds from World Badminton Championships. Shivani Naik answers these questions as she captures the sights and sounds from the badminton fandom at Glasgow. It’s the first final he’s lost since 2005 — to Taufik Hidayat, something that most have forgotten about. Stewart also said that despite the sport’s push into Asia, it would take at least a generation before drivers from the continent would be challenging for the championship. ”Oltmans said that he rarely ever had any disagreement with the authorities in India. The only previous time they played a Test there, in 2006, the visitors won by an innings and 80 runs with nightwatchman Jason Gillespie scoring an unbeaten double century. The strategy paid off as she broke Pliskova in her first two service games to take a 3-1 lead and captured the first set with an emphatic overhead smash.