Four Power couples of Indian sports

There are only a few couples who are sportspersons and are the power couples of Indian sports. Let's take a quick look at them.

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Shreya Ghosh
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There are only a handful of couples who are sportspersons and also two prominent ones in their respective fields. In fact, the specific sports are the reasons why they met each other and are happily together now. On this celebratory week of valentine's let's take a look at the four power couples of Indian Sports.

Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap

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One of the most prominent power couples of Indian sports is Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap. In fact, the reason behind the love story and relationship is their sport badminton. The Indian star shuttlers met for the first time at a training camp in 1997. And soon after they started dating as well. The couple decided to keep their relationship private for a long time and were absolutely secretive about it. The power duo finally married in 2018 and are leaving happily ever after. Kashyap once said in an interview that Saina Nehwal motivated him to connect with the sport once again after multiple injuries.

Dinesh Karthik and Dipika Pallikal

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The love story of Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik and Indian squash player Dipika Pallikal is quite an interesting one as Dipika never really liked cricketers. As a squash player, she and her sport never really got enough limelight and the huge popularity of cricket in India is one of the key reasons behind it. The couple meet at the gym many years back as they were taking fitness training under the same coach Basu and their story started from there. Soon they started meeting often and Deepika cleared her misconceptions, and the duo develop a healthy friendship followed by a relationship. On 15 November 2013, the couple made their relationship official with an engagement ceremony and later married in 2015 in Chennai. The best part is that the couple is now blessed with twins, two baby boys.

Bajrang Punia and Sangeeta Phogat

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Bajrang Punia found the love of his life in his profession itself. Punia married Sangeeta Phogat, the Indian wrestler. The couple met at a wrestling camp in Sonepat and they started dating soon after. Bajrang sent his phone number expecting her to text him. Sadly, Sangeeta did not text her back. They meet each other once again the next day and as the conversation unfolded and they started building a friendship and went ahead with a beautiful relationship. The wrestler couple married in a low-key ceremony in Haryana in November 2020.

Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari

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The fourth power couple of Indian Sports is the duo of Indian archers Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari. Their love story is nothing less than that of a fairytale. The duo meet each other at the Tata academy in Jamshedpur in 2008. They were batchmates at first but ended up falling in love with each other and also married in 2020. The couple did not bond well at the academy as friends. After a few years, they developed a relationship but it was filled with childishness, communication gap, egos, and misunderstandings. The duo started bonding truly well after the 2017 world championships when they went shopping together. Soon it turned into a beautiful relationship and they hitched the knot on 30 June 2020.

Saina Nehwal Atanu Das Dinesh Karthik Deepika Kumari