Jwala Gutta, the hot woman of Indian Badminton

Jwala Gutta, the hot woman of Indian Badminton

Mangalore Today/ ITV

Hyderabad, Nov 13: Jwala Gutta is the latest Badminton sensation. She is one of the most glamorous and hottest athlete from the country. Languor comes easy to Jwala Gutta, but behind that facade stands a confident, strong-willed and independent woman. It is a rarity in Indian sport. Any sportsperson who speaks their mind is often looked upon with suspicion.

 

Gutta is a left-handed player of mixed Indian and Chinese descent who has won the National Badminton Championships thirteen times until 2010. 

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 was born on 7 September 1983 in Wardha, Maharashtra and brought up in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, to a Telugu Indian father and a Chinese mother.
Jwala’s father, Kranti Gutta, hailed from a family of freedom fighters and Leftists. 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.

In the doubles event 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. 

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. 


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. 

 

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.