THE FANTOM CHAMPS Tai Tzu Ying is missed at the World Championships — when she chose to play the World Universiade. Her preparations had been quiet and two days before she began her campaign, India physio C Kiran was stretching her after a hard workout on the main courts. Oltmans came to India in 2013 following the team’s 12th-place finish at the London Olympics. 1CWG 2018: India’s gold rush continues as badminton, table tennis teams script historic winsWhy don’t Japanese fans mob players for selfies. 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. NAME AND FAME The Japanese media is as meticulous in its preparation as Nozomi Okuhara was in winning her title. They don’t know the pattern of sport and the flavour of modern hockey,” he said. Rahul Bharadwaj enters final of India Junior International Grand Prix. Expat fans from East Asian countries have taken to calling him Kidambi, and the day he lost to World. Oltmans is the 23nd coach to be sacked by India’s hockey federation in the last 23 years.