hyderabad the rise and rise of the shuttlers has been awe inspiringfour super series title triumphs catapulted kidambi srikanth to world no 2 its a new high for indian badminton as two shuttlers are currently ranked no 2 in the world a feat accomplished for the first time while pv sindhu reached there a few weeks back srikanth joined her on last thursday until 2016 the script involved the success stories of saina nehwal and sindhu sainas titlewinning spree made it look difficult for others to emulate her till sindhu started winning medals on a bigger stage inspired by the girls the boys took charge in 2017 and collected more than half a dozen titlessrikanth may even become no 1 very soonthe dexterous efforts of coach pullela gopichand are responsible for the badminton revolution in the country but the dronacharya insisted that the success story is a culmination of a lot of things it is a culmination of a lot of things each and everybodys contribution is very important be it the sports authority of india sai government sponsors coaches and also senior players like saina and kashyap gopichand saidsaina and kashyap made others believe that success at highest level could be achieved in men we have prakash sir padukone and myself but in women it was saina she made sindhu believe that indian girls can succeed kashyaps performance inspired srikanth and company in fact each indian player contributed to others success this year prannoys contribution to srikanths performance is remarkable similarly praneeth sai and others have come up well their belief can make the next generation even better the 2001 all england champion saidolympian aparna popat said the progress of the indian shuttlers has been stunning i never thought we could reach here but gopi used to say so what if they are chinese he had that confidence still this sort of tremendous progress is shocking sindhus olympic silver is a huge moment and srikanths four titles this year is phenomenal popat saidthe ninetime national champion said many factors contributed to the rise the success largely is because of gopi but many good things happened to indian sport due to the 2010 commonwealth games the government pumped in a lot of money and many sports benefited we now get foreign coaches and players are regularly sent out for tournaments all these contributed to the success we have won medals in asian meets worlds olympics uber cup junior level what more do we wantgopi too never expected so many shuttlers to come up so soon i had the belief that its possible but it was difficult for people to believe what drove my passion was my own story if i could become the all england champion with minimum facilities why cant these shuttlers excel if we provide them facilities still i never thought so many players would do so well in such a short span of time gopi addedsrikanth said that this group can achieve a lot more i am