Chirag Shetty

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Chirag Shetty is an Indian professional badminton player, who is specialized in mixed team & Mens doubles events.Chirag Shetty started playing badminton at the age of 7 in his leisure time. Gradually, his interest grew in the sport, and he started practicing it professionally under the mentorship of Manish Hadkar at Goregaon Sports Club. Chirag Shettys childhood picture.After 10th standard, 16-year-old Chirag chose to pursue his career as a professional badminton player. Chirag was a very studious guy during his school days and was very much interested in learning science but, after passing in 10th standard, he chose to pursue his studies in commerce because choosing science as a subject requires a lot of time which was not possible with his professional training.Chirag Shetty participated in various club and state-level badminton events during his school days. Later, he moved to Hyderabad to train under Chief National Coach for the India national badminton team Pullela Gopichand at Pullela Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad. Chirag Shetty participated in various national and international level tournaments under his mentorship. Chirag Shetty won team Championship and individual Bronze in School Nationals.Chirag always concentrated on being a doubles player, but his father, Chandrashekhar Shetty, was not very keen on his participation in a team sport. During an interview, Chandrashekhar said, I did not want him to be playing a team game, because, unlike an individual sport, a lot of factors are involved in getting into a team, including politics. In an individual game, nobody can stop you if you are number one. But unlike other families, Chirags parents supported him in every situation and, made sure that he would want his children to take up sports and play in whatever form they want.Chirag Shetty made his professional debut by participating in Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International Badminton Championship held in 2013, though he could not make it to the finals. In 2014, Chirag qualified for the Tata Open India International Challenge in a mixed doubles event with his doubles partner Kuhoo. The duo of Chirag and Kuhooo ended up losing the tournament in the quarter-finals.Chirag fenced his first-ever international gold medal with M.R Arjun in the Swiss Junior Open 2014 Mens Doubles. 2014 proved to be a successful year for Chirag as he won his second international gold in Yonex Belgian Junior against Scotland. Chirag Shetty along with his double partner M.R. Arjun won gold at the Yonex Belgian Junior 2014.Later, Chirag Shetty joined the Pullela Gopichand Academy in Hyderabad for getting professionally trained under Pullela Gopichand, Chief National Coach for the Indian national badminton team. There, the coaches paired Chirag Shetty with Satwiksairaj Rankireddy for mens doubles events. Initially, the duo was not very happy and comfortable with the pairing. Both Chirag and Satwiksairaj were predominantly back-court players the and it was very difficult for them to play as a team on the court. Shetty explained Both of us used to just rush back after playing the shuttle at the net and that was a big problem. He added, But then the coach spoke to us and explained that Satwik has a very good back-court game and I should try and concentrate on improving my front-court game. Once we started doing that, results started to come..Chirag and Satwiksairajs off-court bonding was also not very good. Chirag grew up in Mumbai and Satwiksairaj belongs to the small town of Amalapuram in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. The difference in personalities was not letting them infuse with each other. Satwiksairaj on being paired with Shetty shares his experience as Earlier we used to stay in different rooms. I used to go out with Telugu people a lot. Then I didnt like to go out with North Indian guys. He used to eat everything, I used to eat only Indian food. So I used to go alone. Our coach told us to stay together, go out together and now we have become good friends, he knows me well now and I know all about him as well. Chirag Shetty, along with his double partner M. R. Arjun, won.The pairing of Chirag and Satwiksairaj worked magically for them, and the duo won a number of tournaments together, breaking many records and creating historic moments. They first came into the limelight after winning the Tata Open India International Challenge 2016. They also won the titles of Mauritius International, India International Series, Bangladesh International, and Vietnam Open international challenge together in the same year.