odense indian badminton has been on the ascendancy for quite some time now but a pragmatic chief national coach pullela gopichand believes that there is still a long way to go before the country can be termed as dominant force in the sportin recent past pv sindhu have won silver medals at the olympic games and world championship along with multiple super series victoriesalso read kidambi srikanth wins denmark opensaina nehwal has made a successful comeback from injury with a world championship bronze medal while kidambi srikanth has now won three super series titles in one seasoni think we are being too optimistic was gopichands instant reply when asked if india have now become world beaters in shuttle sportwe as a system are not ready for that sort of a thing moniker unfortunately there are not many people who understand world level sport and it is too early to say that there is immense potential but the system i think a lot still needs to be done gopichand saidthe coach is happy with the progress though during a year where indian shuttlers have won six super series titles apart from srikanths hattrick sindhu has won two titles and b sai praneeth won oneoverall it has been a good positive year we had some very good performances at world championship super series in all the big events we have performed well and i think it is a stepping stone for the next 23 years leading upto the commonwealth games and asian games olympic qualification and then the tokyo games gopichand observeda hectic year lies ahead for india as a host of bigticket events including commonwealth games asian games and world championship lined upasked how he plans to make the players peak at right tournament next year gopichand said we will have the periodization and planning for next year but it is going to be a challenge because there are too many important tournaments too close to each otherthere is all england and commonwealth games which are close to each other similarly world championship and asian games are close and then there are tons of other tournaments which decide the rankings so it will be a challenge it will be a difficult year but hopefully we will manage the coach looked determinedasked if all england championship is losing its relevance gopichand who won the title in 2001 said it is a changing world all england has the history and lot of older people take it as the world championship and olympics kind of a thing but todays day olympics and world championship have taken their placehe agreed that with advent of super series premier and the kind of money associated situation is bound to changewe are having premier super series and now next year we will have grand slams and lot more tournaments have more prize money and some of them has same ranking points as the all england lot of people will think all england as the first among equals but