Pullela Gopichand says: We are still far away from China,

New Delhi, Jun 30 Chief national coach Pullela Gopichand today made it clear that India is still far from being a prevailing power, for example, China and said an update of household structure and organization will be expected to end up plainly a badminton superpower.

"I think we are still far from China. I don't think it is a fair comparison. We have done well yet I would need them to do well in World Championships, Olympics and All England, playing reliably and at exactly that point we can state those things," Gopichand told .

"What we have to do is, when every nation does well, it has its athletics going up and together they ought to likewise have the coaches and support staff going up, and also government structure and approach going up.

"Here, by simply our sheer push of engery we have our players going up there yet our mentors, bolster staff, supervisors they are not of a similar level," said the 2001 All England champion.

Indian shuttlers, specially the men's brigade led by Kidambi Srikanth, have been in rampaging structure as they gathered up four Super Series titles out of six till now.

While P V Sindhu secured the India Open, Praneeth lay claim to his maiden Super Series title at Singapore before Srikanth won consecutive titles at Indonesia and Australia in the last two weeks.

Gopichand, who assumed control over the reigns of Indian badminton in 2006, was likewise reproachful of the level of local competitions and organization.

"Our tournaments and administration is not world class.

We still have domestic tournaments which were built in 1991.

So for a long time we have same local structure, same nationals, same major positioning, same considering," he said.

"When we were state level we were delivering a same quality coaches, today despite the fact that we are now world class, we are creating same quality."

Gopichand, who created two Olympic medallist in Saina Nehwal (London Games bronze) and P V Sindhu (Rio Games silver), hailed the administration for help yet said there is a need to arrange things better.

"Our structure is not maintainable. We have a ton of help from government and games expert of India however organisationally we haven't sufficiently developed to support the system," he said.

"We haven't done our arranging and rebuilding, our reasoning is not still world class, our reasoning doesn't comprehend what is world class. The time has come to address those issues," said the 43-year-old.