Badminton doubles coach and Bollywood star Taapsee Pannu’s boyfriend Mathias Boe re-hired after TOPS approval

Mathias Boe will specifically be looking after the men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and also other members of the doubles team. Boe’s hiring has been done until Asian Games 2022.

In a bid to strengthen Asian Games and Commonwealth Games preparations, the Target Olympic Podium Scheme has approved financial assistance of Rs 7 lakh per month to re-hire Mathias Boe as the doubles badminton coach of India. Boe has been dating Bollywood star Taapsee Pannu for many years now.

He will specifically be looking after the men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and also other members of the doubles team. Boe’s hiring has been done until Asian Games 2022.

In a Mission Olympic Cell meeting on Thursday, proposals from the Badminton Association of India (BAI) to assist in the participation of shuttlers at the Asian Championships in Philippines scheduled to start April 26, were also approved. The support has been extended to women's singles player Aakarshi Kashyap, women’s doubles pair Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam, mixed doubles pairing of Tanisha Crasto and Ishaan Bhatnagar, men’s doubles pair Vishnuvardhan Goud P and Krishna Prasad as well as Arjun MR and Dhruv Kapila.

Earlier this year Taapsee in an interview had said that Boe shares a very ‘cordial’ relationship with her father. “It’s a very, very respectful relationship. I am very surprised. That’s the first time ever my father has not picked out a problem in something that I have done or chosen. First and hopefully not the last time,” Taapsee said.

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