JWALA GUTTA, ARTIS BULUTANGKIS ASAL INDIA

COCKATOO BADMINTON CLUB kali ini akan membahas sisi lain dari dunia olahraga bulutangkis yaitu tentang Jwala Gutta, artis bulutangkis asal India. COCKATOO BADMINTON CLUB beranggapan bahwa dunia bulutangkis tidak saja mampu menghasilkan atlit-atlit berprestasi namun ternyata dapat juga menghasilkan "artis" yang lumayan seksi, salah satunya adalah Jwala Gutta terrsebut.

Jwala Gutta sendiri adalah atlit bulutangkis kidal spesialis ganda asal India yang pernah pula menorehkan prestasi yang cukup luar biasa pada periode sampai tahun 2010. Jwala Gutta lahir pada 7 September 1983 di Wardha, Maharashtra, India. 

She is a doubles badminton player who has partnered with Shruti Kurien and later Ashwini Ponnappa. She was the wife of Chetan Anand, an Arjuna Awardee; however, the two divorced in 2011.

Jwala Gutta adalah pemain bulutangkis ganda yang pernah berpasangan dengan Shruti Kurien dan terakhir berpasangan dengan Ashwini Ponnapa. Jwala Gutta menikah dengan Chetan Anand dan akhirnya bercerai di seputar tahun 2011.

Jwala Gutta dan Chetan Anand

Personal Life

During her Badminton career, Jwala Gutta began dating fellow badminton player Chetan Anand, who was the 1999 Junior National Badminton Champion and 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2010 Senior National Badminton Champion and has been honored with an Arjuna Award. The couple married on 17 July 2005 and got divorced on 29 June 2011.

Berikut ini adalah pose-pose Jwala Gutta di luar arena bulutangkis, sebagaimana layaknya seorang artis.

Performance in Women's Double

In the doubles event though, her performance has been better as entered the Semi Final round of her second International Doubles tournament, the India Asia Satellite tournament 2002. She also reached the Semi Final round of the Indian Asian Satellite tournament 2004, and finished Runner Up at the LE VOLANT D’OR Tournament, known as TOULOUSE Open in the year 2004. Further, she reached the Final Rounds of the Scottish International tournament 2004 and 40th Portuguese Badminton Championship 2004. In the year 2006 she won the Sri Lanka International Satellite tournament while in the year 2007 she won the Cyprus Badminton International tournament. The same year, she also won at the Pakistan International Challenge tournament and the Indian International Challenge tournament. Apart from these achievements, Jwala won the Nepal International Series tournament 2008 and Yonex Dutch Open Grand Prix 2008 in the Women’s Doubles category. She won a gold medal in the women's doubles at the Commonwealth Games 2010 making history of winning the first gold medal for India in the women's doubles. Later on this year they made again history by being the first Indian women's doubles pair to win a bronze medal in a badminton world championship. She played women's doubles as well as mixed doubles ath the 2012 London Olympics. Jwala pairing with Ashwini Ponappa lost there their opening women's double match against the Japanese duo of Mizuki Fujii and Reika Kakiiwa on 28 July 2012.

Performance in Mixed Double

In the Mixed Doubles category too, Jwala has shown her excellence as she has grabbed the titles in the Jakarta Satellite tournament and Welsh International tournament in the year 2005, Sri Lanka International Satellite tournament, Cyprus Badminton International tournament and Indian International Challenge tournament in the year 2007, and Nepal International Series tournament, Bitburger Open Grand Prix tournament and KLRC Bulgaria Open Grand Prix tournament in the year 2008. But the latest achievement in December 2009 where she and her mixed doubles partner Valiyaveetil Diju reached the World Super Series masters final in Malaysia, where they went down to world championship bronze medalists Christinna Pedersen and Joaquim Nielsen 21-14, 21-18. Pairing V. Diju, Jwala lost her opening match 16-21, 12-21 in just 25 minutes at the Wembley Arena in London Olympics.

Yah ....., Jwala Gutta memang cantik dan bertubuh sintal.

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