00:06I think both of them have their own baggage, like, you know, she has started with Kupaya,
00:13being obviously a big baggage, you know, everyone has their own silver spoon and all of that,
00:20but I think it's a very big baggage. I think with this, she would be relieved that, you know,
00:25she is also much of a medalist, I think that would be a huge medal in her career.
00:34And obviously, Teresa also was very hungry from the start of her career.
00:38She wanted to do something big, prove her point that she is not playing tournament, just to compete.
00:44She always wanted to be, you know, the star of the environment.
00:49I think this, again, is a big achievement, you know, as well.
00:55I think, yeah, I think that is one of the reasons why they were very, very emotional.
01:02I mean, everyone keeps mentioning Kupaya and Kupaya and Kupaya are very calm.
01:10And that is what Rikri also said, and this is what Kupaya also probably would have said.
01:16But instead of going in the opposite direction, Kupaya is very calm.
01:21Do you contain a player like that or how do you deal with the player?
01:28So, I think we have two different players here.
01:31Teresa being the person who is always charging at the openings and Kupaya being the calm one.
01:36I think you need to deal with them differently.
01:39You know, obviously, encourage Teresa to just calm a little bit when she is, you know, becoming too aggressive
01:47or smashing too often.
01:48At the same time, just, you know, encouraging Kaya to be a little more aggressive.
01:52I think there needs to be a fine tune and fine tune between overdoing and underdoing it.
01:58I think as coaches, it's coaches duty, you know, just let them know that probably sometimes
02:04they are overdoing it or probably they are not doing enough.
02:08So, I think that is where the coaches need to just look like.
02:13You see, it is obviously always difficult, especially, you know, in India the home crowd, you know, thousands of people
02:36are there, trying to encourage them, you know.
02:38And, you know, they want to make sure the crowd goes back home happily, you know, especially we, India, have
02:45that middle streak since last 15 years.
02:48And if we don't get any India, I think that would be the saddest thing.
02:53I think, you know, for the sport also to get famous, I think such tournaments need to happen and our
03:00players need to win.
03:01I think I'm really happy that our event could be the event.
03:07Obviously, we only talk about the strategy, not regarding, you know, the medal or something.
03:12I think just the strategy, you know, what needs to be done, what can we expect the opponents to do.
03:19I think those basic stuff, nothing more, nothing less, whatever we used to tell before, it's the same thing.
03:26I mean, mostly I used to just mention points to go picker and give us that way.
03:31And I think, you know, obviously there's also father and daughter bonding and that could be a better approach, according
03:40to me as well.
03:41After the first game, I think most of them were rotating more often, something which they did against the Japanese
03:48also.
03:49So, was that a conscious thing that when they rotate more, you know, since the last 30-40 days, the
03:56rotation has got better, you know,
03:58the athletes have been rotating a lot more.
04:00I mean, if you remember, most of them would say that Desai would always stay back and die.
04:06But I think this tournament, that's not the case, both of them shared their load equally and getting to the
04:15specific of this specific match,
04:17I think it's just that confidence, they could not build up the confidence to rotate a lot more often.
04:22Once the, you know, 10-7 change to 13-10, is when they were a little more confident and if
04:29they were, you know, in the flow, they would rotate pretty often.
04:32Does that rotation movement, so, for a lot more, especially because once the rotation started, that we started smashing more.
04:37Yeah.
04:38She had a couple of more cross-codes and she would, you know, try to raise the smash.
04:42So, things like, how does it help exactly?
04:45So, I, again, see, you cannot force too much because, you know, if the lift is really baseline, I think
04:52the rotating will be a little more tougher.
04:54You need to wait for the opponent to play a mid-court stroke and then that's when the rotation would
04:58happen.
04:59If you are, even on a baseline, if you are trying to rotate, then you tend to get caught.
05:04So, I think, yeah, they just waited for the right time to rotate and then they have done it.
05:08So, you spoke about the confidence when it comes to rotation in this tournament and were there any specific learning
05:14performance?
05:15Yeah, especially, I think, you know, there's a huge, huge difference in their net game and also, I mean, yeah,
05:22I mean, you know, like I just said, the conventional thing was Gaia in front and Prisa back.
05:28But if you see in this tournament, Prisa was excellent at the net and Gaia was excellent at the back.
05:34I think that, you know, that was worked upon and I think you can see the output.
05:46I'm really happy and I would say, you know, more players should play doubles.
05:51That is what I would say.
05:52I think with very few pairings, if we can have two pairs in quarterfinals, one at third, semi-finals,
06:01and, you know, I'm pretty confident that even Satri Chirag also will make the cut today evening.
06:09So, I think, you know, doubles is really doing well and, you know, doubles is not a secondary event.
06:15I mean, we are earning well, we are, doubles players are famous, you know, so I think I don't see
06:21a reason why people don't take doubles as their main event.
06:24I think, yeah, they should play a lot more doubles.
06:27I'm sure with time, people will realize and take up doubles as their main event as well.
06:46Yeah, like, you know, obviously, it was more like an accident where, you know, she had to keep her feet
06:55on another player.
06:56It was very sad, obviously, you know, even then they were playing really well.
07:01Probably we could have seen some good results in those tournaments also.
07:06But again, you need to accept rather than thinking too much about that.
07:09Obviously, she was very low, even Gaia was very low.
07:13But from day one, they were doing, rather than thinking about why it happened, they were focusing on what needs
07:21to be done better.
07:22I mean, Trisha used to focus more on her stroke and improve her confidence and Gaia used to, you know,
07:28started on the first day with her fitness.
07:30And you can see, you know, today they were good enough to play another 20 minutes after the match as
07:34well.
07:35So, I think they focused on that.
07:36And getting back to the point of the Philippines, it was, you know, a selective decision, especially because after so
07:43long, I think it would be advisable.
07:45I mean, I and Bokistar had a discussion that, you know, it would be advisable to play an easier tournament
07:50so that they get to play more matches and gain some more confidence.
07:55And I think, you know, a decision turned out to be a good decision.
07:58Last two questions.
08:01In our physical condition, can we say much more?
08:04Talk a little bit more about the strength of the conditioning process going on in your head, especially in your
08:08state really?
08:08Yeah, like I just said, you know, there was a lot of focus on the physicality and, you know, straight
08:16to the trainer-transparent.
08:19I mean, yeah, not just the physical part.
08:23I think with the quality of the stroke, you are physically, you need not move so much.
08:32If the quality of the stroke is really good, then the opponent is struggling and you are the happier one.
08:37You make sure the opponent is moving.
08:39So I think in that way, I think both of the things like that, it's our own physical part as
08:45well as the opponent struggling to move and get not more strained both way working.
08:51So maybe it was a most of the strangling of the working that they had, like, so much time because
08:57they weren't playing all this world, but they had to have two personal training.
09:00Yeah, I think it's your, today we are sitting here, I think, and just, you know, rather than looking at
09:07the reasons, I think today we can say, yeah, I think whatever has happened, has happened so good because rather
09:14than the Asian Championship, World Championship is a bigger event, you know.
09:18Thank you guys so much.
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