Five EMERGING players that Indian Badminton will pin its hopes on in the future

(4) Saurabh Varma

Saurabh Varma became the Indian National Badminton champion at the age of 19 and also won his first international title that year when he won at the Bahrain International Challenge. He further continued his good form that year, by reaching the final of the Syed Modi Grand Prix where he lost to Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia.

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Sourabh then won 2013 Tata International Challenge in Mumbai in which he defeated Prannoy Kumar in the final and had a great time in 2014 as well, winning two titles- the Iran Fajr International Challenge as well the Austrian International Challenge where he beat Taiwan’s Hsu Jen-hao. He also won the silver at the 2014 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold .

Sourabh can certainly be considered as someone on whom we can pin our hopes for the future.

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