Jwala Gutta

Jwala Gutta (Hindi: ज्वाला गुट्टा) is a left-handed Indian badminton player of mixed Chinese and Indian[2] descent who has won the National Badminton Championships thirteen times until 2010. She is one of the best women's doubles badminton players produced by India in recent times, partnering with Shruti Kurien. She was also the wife of Chetan Anand, an Arjuna Awardee; however, the two divorced in 2010.[3]

Early life

Gutta was born in Wardha, Maharastra and brought up in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, to an Indian father (Telugu speaking) and a Chinese mother. Her mother's grandfather, Tseng from Tianjin, was a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and stayed with him at Sevagram ashram, where he translated Gandhi's autobiography and other works into Chinese.[2]
[edit]Performance in Women’s Doubles

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 Women Doubles in Commonwealth Games 2010.
[edit]Performance in Mixed Doubles

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 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.
[edit]Personal life



During her Badminton career, Jwala Gutta fell in love with fellow Badminton Player Chetan Anand, who was the 1999 Junior National Badminton Champion and 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010 Senior National Badminton Champion, and has been honored with an Arjuna Award. The couple married on 17 July 2005.More recently, there were rumours wide spread regarding her extra-marital affair to Mohd. Azharuddin a well known cricket personality and currently serving as a Member of Parliament. Though both denied the rumours, it gained wide publicity as the couple was sighted together a number of times and more because of the internal conflict between Azharuddin and his wife, ex-bollywood actor Sangeeta Bijlani who are reportedly been found living apart.[4] She filed for a divorce on 5 August 2010.[3]
[edit]Television Appearances

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