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Jwala Gutta is a left-handed international badminton player from India. She is the country's top-notch player and has won the National Badminton Championships fourteen times till 2013. She is a doubles specialist who has been representing India on the international circuit for more than 15 years and has partnered with Shruti Kurien earlier in her career, but later found greater success with Ashwini Ponnappa and the pair has been consistently been ranked among the top 20 in the world.
Jwala, from Hyderabad, brought recognition for doubles badminton in the country, first with her mixed doubles partner Valiyaveetil Diju and now forms the high-profile partnership with Ponnappa in women's doubles.
Jwala has brought numerous medals for Indian badminton including the bronze medal BWF World Championships in 2011 and a gold and silver at 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games respectively in women's doubles which were the first for the country in the discipline. Other achievements include the historic bronze medal at the 2014 Thomas & Uber Cup team event and medals at Badminton Asia Championships and final and semi-final appearances in many big international events most notably the finals appearance at BWF Super Series Masters Finals in 2009 alongside Diju.
Jwala with her successful career and outspoken nature is one of the few recognizable female athletes of the country and has been listed several times among the top most inspiring sportswomen of India. She is the Icon player for Krrish Delhi Smashers Franchise of the Indian Badminton League.
Jwala was born on 7 September 1983 in Wardha, Maharashtra and brought up in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, to a Telugu Indian father and a Chinese mother. Jwala's father, Kranti Gutta, hailed from a family of freedom fighters and Leftists from present day Andhra Pradesh. Her mother, Yelan Gutta, was born in Tianjin, and is a granddaughter of a Gandhian named Tseng. Yelan first came to India in 1977 with her grandfather to visit the Sevagram ashram, where she translated Gandhi's autobiography and other works into Chinese language.She started playing badminton at the age of 6, after shifting from tennis which she had earlier taken up. Jwala was brought up in Hyderabad, Telangana.
The primary title that she won was the Mini National Badminton Championship for the young ladies under 13 years old, held at Thrissur, Kerala. In the year 2000, Jwala won the Junior National Badminton Championship when she was 17 years old. That year she won both the Women’s Doubles Junior National Championship and Senior National Badminton Championship in organization with Shruti Kurien. This was an association that was there to stay for quite a while. She further won the Women’s Doubles National title for 7 more years in succession, since the year 2002 till the year 2008, in organization with Shruti Kurien.
Jwala Gutta likes playing aggressive badminton and has a great affinity for netplay, with a great level of skill at the net like good anticipation and deceptive shots. She is considered very dangerous at the net with good reading of the game and great interceptions and is substantially sharp with her strokes at the net. She also has a strong smash from the back court and some handy deceptive drops. She is vulnerable in a few areas the most evident being her movement across the court and can commit errors when forced to move. She also has had some fitness issues in her long career. She is also famous for being one of the only world-class doubles player to still use the forehand service since most other doubles specialists opt for the safer backhand serve. She stands unique in this aspect.
In 2011, Gutta was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian Government, India's second highest sporting honour for her achievements as a badminton player.
Jwala, from Hyderabad, brought recognition for doubles badminton in the country, first with her mixed doubles partner Valiyaveetil Diju and now forms the high-profile partnership with Ponnappa in women's doubles.
Jwala has brought numerous medals for Indian badminton including the bronze medal BWF World Championships in 2011 and a gold and silver at 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games respectively in women's doubles which were the first for the country in the discipline. Other achievements include the historic bronze medal at the 2014 Thomas & Uber Cup team event and medals at Badminton Asia Championships and final and semi-final appearances in many big international events most notably the finals appearance at BWF Super Series Masters Finals in 2009 alongside Diju.
Jwala with her successful career and outspoken nature is one of the few recognizable female athletes of the country and has been listed several times among the top most inspiring sportswomen of India. She is the Icon player for Krrish Delhi Smashers Franchise of the Indian Badminton League.
Jwala was born on 7 September 1983 in Wardha, Maharashtra and brought up in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, to a Telugu Indian father and a Chinese mother. Jwala's father, Kranti Gutta, hailed from a family of freedom fighters and Leftists from present day Andhra Pradesh. Her mother, Yelan Gutta, was born in Tianjin, and is a granddaughter of a Gandhian named Tseng. Yelan first came to India in 1977 with her grandfather to visit the Sevagram ashram, where she translated Gandhi's autobiography and other works into Chinese language.She started playing badminton at the age of 6, after shifting from tennis which she had earlier taken up. Jwala was brought up in Hyderabad, Telangana.
The primary title that she won was the Mini National Badminton Championship for the young ladies under 13 years old, held at Thrissur, Kerala. In the year 2000, Jwala won the Junior National Badminton Championship when she was 17 years old. That year she won both the Women’s Doubles Junior National Championship and Senior National Badminton Championship in organization with Shruti Kurien. This was an association that was there to stay for quite a while. She further won the Women’s Doubles National title for 7 more years in succession, since the year 2002 till the year 2008, in organization with Shruti Kurien.
Jwala Gutta likes playing aggressive badminton and has a great affinity for netplay, with a great level of skill at the net like good anticipation and deceptive shots. She is considered very dangerous at the net with good reading of the game and great interceptions and is substantially sharp with her strokes at the net. She also has a strong smash from the back court and some handy deceptive drops. She is vulnerable in a few areas the most evident being her movement across the court and can commit errors when forced to move. She also has had some fitness issues in her long career. She is also famous for being one of the only world-class doubles player to still use the forehand service since most other doubles specialists opt for the safer backhand serve. She stands unique in this aspect.
In 2011, Gutta was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian Government, India's second highest sporting honour for her achievements as a badminton player.
