new delhi doubles specialist ashwini ponnappa wants the apathy towards doubles players in the country to end and bats for the same kind of support system prize money and importance singles players get toi sports caught up with ponnappa after her match for delhi dashers against hyderabad hunters at the siri fort sports complex on sunday if you look at the past result and the current record the graph is actually going up and not downward with every win and achievement doubles players have got but their success has not been portrayed and i need to be asking that from you guys media why doubles players are not given their due despite doing well ponnappa said you cant really compare doubles with singles they are two very different events most of us started off as singles players for longest part of our career later on we were made to change to doubles its not like we voluntarily change to doubles if it was a voluntarily choice then it would have been different situation she added ask any junior they want to take up doubles they still want to take up singles if they had a chance because they have seen the kind of importance singles and doubles get i think doubles has been doing well for the past couple of years since 2008 or 2009 doubles has been on top but no one likes to focus on that they just like focusing on the losses we have had and constantly comparing doubles to singles and if thats the case then we should have the same kind of support system prize money and importance the 28yearold player said after a sloppy start to the premier badminton league campaign delhi dashers got their campaign back on track in an emphatic manner as they defeated hyderabad hunters 50 ponnappa and her mixed doubles partner vladimir ivanov registered straight games 1511 1512 victory over satwiksairaj rankireddy and pia zebadiah bernadeth we were looking forward to getting a good win in this match because we didnt start off as we would have liked to all of us are really happy that we have won because it was quite important for us and definitely it gives us lot of confidence ponnappa said about delhis first victory of the season she also stressed on the importance of indian players playing alongside foreign players in pbl we get to learn a lot we get to interact with them which otherwise we would not really get to do normally when you travel we stick to our own country team so it gives a chance to interact mingle learn and grow as players ponnappa had a great association with her former partner jwala gutta as they had won gold at the 2010 commonwealth games bronze at the 2011 world championship and silver medal at the 2014 commonwealth games in glasgow they also claimed two medals at the 2016 south asian games ponappa is currently ranked 28th in womens doubles and