bengaluru former national badminton coach vimal kumar thursday lauded saina nehwal for not letting her relationship with fellow shuttler parupalli kashyap affect her game amid reports that the two are tying the knot in decemberi knew about their saina and kashyap relationship one good thing about it is saina managed it very well she did not get distracted with it her priority was sport and she gave hundred per cent to it he told pti at the padukonedravid centre for sports excellencesaina shifted from hyderabad to bengaluru to train under vimal kumar in 2014 before her return to hyderabad to once again train under pullela gopichand last yearkumar has been instrumental in helping saina achieve world no 1 ranking in april 2015 and win a silver at the world championshipnormally such attractions and relationships among teens are a great distraction but saina drew inspiration from it and reached many milestones in her career he addedrecently saina had included kashyaps name in her thank you note on twitter along with coach gopichand and her physios after clinching a bronze in asian gamesi would like to thank gopi sir for all the hardwork and support also parupallik for giving me great match inputs and for helping me in sessions before the asiangame2018 lot of efforts of physios would like to thank arvinddnigam4 and kiran challagundla sir saina wrote on twitterkumar said it is important not to forget about ones goals in lifekumar said he is happy that saina is getting married to kashyap because he has known them for a long timehe advised kashyap to switch to coaching after marriage but expect saina to continue playing for a couple of years more