Not that aggression is easy to learn – to switch on, and switch off. But before Rio Olympics, PV Sindhu, a very mild-mannered Hyderabadi, was taught to yell, and crank it up against the likes of Tai Tzu-ying, Yihan Wang and to go toe to toe with Carolina Marin in the finals. Down the years, as Sindhu found her voice, it came in handy to beat the likes of Akane Yamaguchi, He Bingjiao and famously Chen Yufei and Nozomi Okuhara, for the 2019 World title. An Se-young remains unconquered.

Almost a decade since, coach Pullela Gopichand has two other shuttlers who have been imparted lessons in deconstructed aggression. Hell-raising screams and pumped fists are a very tiny part of it. The aggression that Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand need to imbibe is considerably tougher to pull off, given defe

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