Special Guest Episode - Christo Popov

In this episode you'll get to know rising French star Christo Popov a lot better!

Christo is the no. 1 men's singles junior in the world rankings and is already making his mark on the senior circuit as well.

We talk about his background coming from a badminton "crazy" family and how he sees it as a big advantage.

Christo also shares his thoughts about last years World Junior Championships where he came away with a historic silver medal. We go through the matches, his preparation and look at the possibility of upgrading to a gold medal next time!

Furthermore he offers great insight as to how he makes his current training setup outside of the national centre in France work for him and how he sees himself break the barrier between being a succesful junior to becoming the same on the senior level.

Finally he answers a few listeners questions about which retired player he would have liked to play against, who his toughest opponent is on the junior scene and which skill he would like to "steal" from a current top player!

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