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Seeing Karnam Malleswari's Olympic medal was a huge inspiration: Pullela Gopichand

A lot has been said and written about the intense rivalry between India's top-two badminton players - Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu. That they cannot see eye-to-eye or don't practice under the same roof together have all made the headlines.

Only Pullela Gopichand knows what the true story is behind this rivalry. The Indian team coach opened up on the topic in the latest episode of Inspiration and spoke about how tough it has been to manage and take care of Saina and Sindhu at the same time.

"If I were to say it was easy, it would be a lie (to manage Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu). To be fair, I think it's been tough. Because we run a system in our country where there is no system as such. So we go back and we are evolving in the system, kind of whoever has more strength or whoever is more powerful the system starts leaning towards them.

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