Are badminton winds moving west?
5 min readNov 15, 2026 10:10 AM IST First published on: Nov 15, 2026 at 10:04 AM IST
Youth Olympics finalist Tanvi Patri’s father, Rabinarayan, recalled the exact trigger that enraged his 15-year-old daughter at the Junior World Championships where, after falling ill, she lost early. One of the coaches – in a flippant fit of anger obviously – happened to tell the Indian juniors team that they ought to be ashamed that they lost to UAE. The gulf state celebrated wildly. But he clearly wasn’t clued in to the changing winds. Or sands, if you will.
Not only did the UAE team beat the Indian juniors, their men’s singles lead Riyan Malhan went on to win the Youth Olympics inside a month of that unwise scolding dished out to Indians.
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