Players remain the focus through the week, even as Okuhara is declared the queen of shuttle. FROM OLD to OLDEST Photographer Ross, 80, still recalls the joy of watching the graceful Prakash Padukone. It’s the first final he’s lost since 2005 — to Taufik Hidayat, something that most have forgotten about. ” By the time Gopichand came along, he’d retired but recalls being gladdened by the fact that someone with elegant strokeplay and not “crash-bang” had won the All England. She thanked JSW sports for backing her before stating that not all wrestlers are so lucky and that the system should take care of players with lesser access to resources. The coach was not able to motivate the team so we felt a change we needed,” Olympian BP Govinda, a member of the committee, said. Bharadwaj had to work hard to outmanoeuvre George 21-16, 20-22, 24-22 in a match that lasted an hour and three minutes here. The Dutchman, however, was taken aback with the sudden decision of Hockey India and said it was not in the best interest of the country. They don’t know the pattern of sport and the flavour of modern hockey,” he said. But she will need to cut out the errors that plagued her against 18-year-old Kenin, a fellow America-based player who was born in Russia.