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Bhagat versus Bethell, a para shuttle rivalry
Financial Express Mumbai
|January 07, 2024
ENGLISHMAN DANIEL BETHELL has turned around a 2-7 head-tohead record from 2017-2021 against India's Paralympic and World champion Pramod Bhagat, to now lead 10-8 post his loss in the finals at Tokyo 2020.
India's para-hero in the SL3 category over the last 8 losses spanning Spain, Bahrain, Canada and Thailand, has realised just how challenging it is going to get against Bethell who's thirsting for a Para Games gold medal that Bhagat won.
It is rivalries like these that reinvigorate ambitions of defending champions. Knowing that his chest-level smashes and deceptions that blew Bethell away in that Tokyo final have been neutralized by the Englishman hungry for his glory, has led Bhagat to up his own game, empty his head of memories of past success and go problem-solving looking for counters to Bethell's counters.
This story is from the January 07, 2024 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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