mumbai chief national badminton coach pullela gopichand termed the year gone by as a tough one but expressed satisfaction that the target to do well in major events was achievedoverall its been a tough year for us we hardly had any time for preparation overall we had the commonwealth games the asian games and world championships the big events gopichand told reporters on wednesdayand whatever time we had was not enough to really work endtoend on the mistake but having said that we still have kidambi srikanth ranked high p v sindhu ranked highwe have had medals at the major events whether its the asian games cwg or world championships so i am happy with the performances of the shuttlers and looking forward to the coming year the chief national coach explainedgopichand was speaking after launching the mumbai games which the organisers have claimed to be the worlds first ever citylevel franchisebased multisport multiage sports extravaganzasrikanth is currently ranked ninth among men in the world while rio olympics silver medalist sindhu is ranked second among the womenin this year we had the major events commonwealth games asian games and world championships and we have been successful in those and that was our target for this year and im happy that at the end of the year they players are able to maintain their rankings added gopichandanother top shuttler saina nehwal won the cwg gold in april defeating compatriot sindhu in the finalthe indian team also clinched the gold medal in the team championship at cwg held in gold coast australiagopichand also stressed that extra effort was needed to be done in all the areasevery area needs work if you look at the way srikanth has played he has lost to a couple of them players quite frequently whether it is kento momota japan or chou tien chen chinese taipei there have been a few losses there which have been consistent but if you have to win the big ones you have to beat them and you have to prepare for them he saidand unfortunately we had backtoback tournaments we had a week after the asian games came back after two tournaments we had another week now so this is not enough time for the preparation and i would like to see a little longer stint the former all england champion saidasked whether it was important for top shuttlers to pick and choose events gopichand replied this year was a tough one with the commonwealth and asian games it was tough to pick and also players in the top 15 have to play a mandatory number of event so that makes it even tougher its easier said than donequizzed further whether scheduling could be attributed as the reason for the dip in form gopichand shot back saying the whole world has to follow it its tough for us as one of the countries which has to take part in the asian and commonwealth games in the same year so we had