Top 5 emerging badminton players in India

#4 RMV Gurusaidutt

Another extremely promising youngster, RMV Gurusaidutt first burst onto the scene in 2008, when he won gold at the Youth Commonwealth Games held in Pune and also won the bronze at the BWF World Junior Championships held in the same year in the same city. He also became the first Indian to win the Dutch Junior International that year and rounded off 2008 by winning the Bahrain International Challenge badminton championship.

Gurusaidutt reached the quarter-finals of the 2009 Denmark Super Series and then created a major upset the following year when he beat former All England champion Muhammad Hafeez Hashim in the quarters of the India Open Badminton Championship. He also won the silver at the India Open Grand Prix Gold that year.

But perhaps the biggest achievement of his career came last year, when won the bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, defeating Rajiv Ouseph of Great Britain in three games.

While the performance of India in womens singles has been over a considerable period of time, the mens singles has also seen good improvement in the last few years with the likes of Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy performing well in major tournaments. One can only hope that with the inclusion of Gurusaidutt, Indian badminton only continues to gofrom strength-to-strength.