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Jwala Gutta

Jwala Gutta is an Indian badminton player of mixed Chinese-Indian[1] origin who has won the National Badminton Doubles Championship seven times. She is one of the best Women’s Doubles Badminton players produced by India in recent times partnering with Shruti Kurien. She is also the wife of Chetan Anand, an Arjuna Awardee and three times National Badminton Champion.

Personal information
Date of birth	September 7, 1983 (1983-09-07) (age 26)
Place of birth	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Height	5 11″
Country	India
Handedness	Left
Coach	S. M. Arif
Mixed Doubles / Women’s Doubles
Highest Ranking	7
Current Ranking

Early life

Gutta was born and brought up in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, to an Indian father and a Chinese mother. Her grandfather was a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and had stayed with him at Sevagram ashram where he translated Gandhiji’s autobiography and other works to Chinese.

Career

Jwala started her career in badminton at the age of 10 under Mr. S. M. Arif. The first title that she won was the Mini National Badminton Championship for the girls under 13 years of age, held at Thrissur, Kerala. In the year 2000, Jwala won the Junior National Badminton Championship when she was 17 years of age. The same year she won both the Women’s Doubles Junior National Championship and Senior National Badminton Championship in partnership with Shruti Kurien. This was a partnership that was there to stay for a long time. She further won the Women’s Doubles National title for 7 more years in a row, since the year 2002 till the year 2008, in partnership with Shruti Kurien. Jwala partnered with Pullela Gopichand to win the Mixed Doubles National Badminton Championship 2003. In the year 2005 she teamed up with V. Diju and won the Mixed Doubles title for the second time. Further, the Jwala Gutta – V. Diju pair also won the Mixed Doubles National title again in the year 2007 and 2008. Jwala Gutta is one of the most successful Doubles Badminton players of India and her long record of success proves it.

International Badminton

On August 30, she created history with Valiyaveetil Diju becoming the first Indian mixed doubles pair to win a Grand Prix gold in Chinese Taipei.[2] Diju/Jwala’s international performance has been excellent since June 2008. They started with winning back to back Grand prix tournaments in 2008. The Bitburger Gran prix and Bulgarian Grand Prix. Her first foray into International Badminton scenario came in the year 2002 when she played at the Uber Cup tournament. She entered the Pre-Quarter Final round of the India Asia Satellite tournament 2002, and couldn’t fare better in Singles event of any other tournament for some time. In the year 2004, Jwala entered the Semi Final round of the Indian Asian Satellite tournament. In both the Sri Lanka International tournament 2006 and India Satellite tournament 2006 she reached the Quarter Final round which she eventually lost.

Performance in Women’s Doubles

In the doubles event though, her performance has been better as entered the Semi Final round of her second International Doubles tournament, the India Asia Satellite tournament 2002. She also reached the Semi Final round of the Indian Asian Satellite tournament 2004, and finished Runner Up at the LE VOLANT D’OR Tournament, known as TOULOUSE Open in the year 2004. Further, she reached the Final Rounds of the Scottish International tournament 2004 and 40th Portuguese Badminton Championship 2004. In the year 2006 she won the Sri Lanka International Satellite tournament while in the year 2007 she won the Cyprus Badminton International tournament. The same year, she also won at the Pakistan International Challenge tournament and the Indian International Challenge tournament. Apart from these achievements, Jwala won the Nepal International Series tournament 2008 and Yonex Dutch Open Grand Prix 2008 in the Women’s Doubles category.

source:wikipedia.org

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