The ace shuttle badminton player of the country-Pullela Gopichand, who is serving as a national coach for Badminton Association of India is also running his Badminton Academy at Gachchi Bowli in Hyderabad, where he trains the new comers. However, another player Jwala Gutta who differs with him in this regard hits the media headlines now and then talking against his academy.

The Mumbai High Court responding to a petition filed by Prajakta Sawant who is also a badminton player and who alleges that he has harassed and spoiled her career has served notices to BAI to come-up with its explanation for allowing Gopichand to run the private academy while he is on its pay rolls. It asks him, how he can run his private coaching center while he is supposed to train the aspirants as national coach.

But, the fact is Gopichand has been striving hard to bring out the hidden talent of the young kids in the country with his Academy, for which he even mortgaged his ancestral property to raise the funds for the academy. Business magnet Nimmagadda Prasad is associating him in this big task.