Pullela Gopichand Academy to organise Corporate Badminton Tournament – ‘Let’s Shuttle’

Hyderabad|India|August'2010: Pullela Gopichand Nimmagadda Foundation Badminton Academy is organising a badminton tournament exclusively for Corporates - Let’s Shuttle, from September 17 to 19, 2010 at Pullela Gopichand Academy, here. Let’s Shuttle is a brain child of former All England Champion and iconic badminton coach, Pullela Gopichand, to raise funds to upgrade infrastructure and train badminton champions for the country. The Tournament is supported by industry organizations like TiE, CII and ITsAP and the idea and marketing is by an innovative start up firm ‘XL Consulting’.

Gopichand who has been providing subsidized and free training to several hundred kids says, I believe in the immense potential Indians have to become world champions. World champions can be produced only when the right infrastructure and training is provided along with the holistic support facilities. Let’s Shuttle is an attempt to achieve my objective of creating tomorrow’s champions by popularizing the sport and creating consciousness on health and fitness. This fundraiser tournament will enable me to expand my infrastructure and training facilities to support deserving kids.

Let’s Shuttle is designed to inculcate fitness amongst corporate executives with an element of fun and will have employees from leading corporate vying for glory while enjoying themselves. The Tournament has unique game formats like ‘Bring it On!’ and will have General doubles, Mixed doubles, Executive Doubles (Senior Management), Ladies Doubles, Triples (Bring it On!) game formats.

There will be exhibition matches with celebrities displaying their feather skills. Spectators will have quizzes, games and entertainment extravaganza, the likes of which have never been experienced before. Another unique activity as a part of Let’s Shuttle is ‘Talent Search’. Kids between the 7-10 yrs., of age from various schools will be provided an opportunity to exhibit their latent talent, the deserving ones will be handpicked for further training at the Academy.

The response for the Tournament from Corporate has been tremendous with several Companies confirming participation of 15 players from each one of them. Players’ excitement is apparent from the rigorous practice seen at the acedemy by teams from ADP, AMD, Qualcomm and others.