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Reigning Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen has parted ways with coach Anup Sridhar and will currently be assisted by childhood coach U Vimal Kumar.        Following his gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Lakshya had been struggling with form especially after a deviated nasal septum surgery in September 2022. AFP      Vimal sir will be travelling with me for now. I am not being coached by Anup anymore,  Lakshya said here on Monday.   Former India i stanley cup website nternational Anup was rope stanley en mexico d in by the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, where Lakshya trains in Bengaluru, to assist the former All England Open runner-up at the start of last year. Following his gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Lakshya had been struggling with form especially after a deviated nasal septum surgery in September 2022. He started his recovery process  stanley water bottle under Anup after several early rounds exits before finally reaching the semi-finals at Thailand Open, US Open and Japan Open. Lakshya ended his year-long title drought when he won the Canada Open 鈥?a Super 500 event 鈥?at Calgary in July. It was three weeks ago that Lakshya and Anup had discussions after the season ended and decided to part ways after not being able to achieve the targets they had set together.  They were probably not being able to understand each other fully which led to the decision. Plus, Lakshya wanted to try out a few things on his own. I was also taken aback with the decision as the arrangement had been made ti Wwpz Low-key return for Schiavone
Accused of gamesmanship and dogged by injury, Victoria Azarenka s bid for successive Australian Open titles on Saturday will pit her against an opponent in the form of her life and a centre-court crowd wary of bad sportsmanship.               The Belarusian will take on sixth seed Li Na, who has not dropped a set all tournament and boosted her sky-high confidence further by demolishing last year s finalist Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-2 in the semis.  Azarenka s performance a stanley flasche gainst Sloane Stephens was less assured, and marred by controversy when the top seed took a near-10 minute medical timeout after blowing five match-points stanley cup . Azarenka returned to the court with jeers from the crowd, and after closing it out on the sixth m stanley cup atch-point, added fuel to the fire by telling the on-court interviewer she nearly had  the choke of the year.       Slammed on social media and grilled by reporters, Azarenka denied she had taken the timeout to calm her nerves, saying it was to receive treatment for a rib injury that was restricting her breathing. Emotional favourite The public relations exercise is unlikely to win much of the Rod Laver Arena crowd back to her corner, especially against an opponent like Li, who lost in the 2011 final to Kim Clijsters and remains a sentimental favourite at Melbourne Park. Li, who will turn 31 next month and is bidding to become the tournament s oldest women s champion, is in the shape of her life after a punishing off-season boot-camp under new coach Carlos Rodrig

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Reigning Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen has parted ways with coach Anup Sridhar and will currently be assisted by childhood coach U Vimal Kumar.        Following his gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Lakshya had been struggling with form especially after a deviated nasal septum surgery in September 2022. AFP      Vimal sir will be travelling with me for now. I am not being coached by Anup anymore,  Lakshya said here on Monday.   Former India i stanley cup website nternational Anup was rope stanley en mexico d in by the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, where Lakshya trains in Bengaluru, to assist the former All England Open runner-up at the start of last year. Following his gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Lakshya had been struggling with form especially after a deviated nasal septum surgery in September 2022. He started his recovery process  stanley water bottle under Anup after several early rounds exits before finally reaching the semi-finals at Thailand Open, US Open and Japan Open. Lakshya ended his year-long title drought when he won the Canada Open 鈥?a Super 500 event 鈥?at Calgary in July. It was three weeks ago that Lakshya and Anup had discussions after the season ended and decided to part ways after not being able to achieve the targets they had set together.  They were probably not being able to understand each other fully which led to the decision. Plus, Lakshya wanted to try out a few things on his own. I was also taken aback with the decision as the arrangement had been made ti Wwpz Low-key return for Schiavone
Accused of gamesmanship and dogged by injury, Victoria Azarenka s bid for successive Australian Open titles on Saturday will pit her against an opponent in the form of her life and a centre-court crowd wary of bad sportsmanship.               The Belarusian will take on sixth seed Li Na, who has not dropped a set all tournament and boosted her sky-high confidence further by demolishing last year s finalist Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-2 in the semis.  Azarenka s performance a stanley flasche gainst Sloane Stephens was less assured, and marred by controversy when the top seed took a near-10 minute medical timeout after blowing five match-points stanley cup . Azarenka returned to the court with jeers from the crowd, and after closing it out on the sixth m stanley cup atch-point, added fuel to the fire by telling the on-court interviewer she nearly had  the choke of the year.       Slammed on social media and grilled by reporters, Azarenka denied she had taken the timeout to calm her nerves, saying it was to receive treatment for a rib injury that was restricting her breathing. Emotional favourite The public relations exercise is unlikely to win much of the Rod Laver Arena crowd back to her corner, especially against an opponent like Li, who lost in the 2011 final to Kim Clijsters and remains a sentimental favourite at Melbourne Park. Li, who will turn 31 next month and is bidding to become the tournament s oldest women s champion, is in the shape of her life after a punishing off-season boot-camp under new coach Carlos Rodrig