About Jwala Gutta

Jwala Gutta is a left-handed Indian  badminton  player of mixed Indian and Chinese descent who has won the National Badminton Championships thirteen times until 2010.   She is one of the best women's doubles badminton players produced by India in recent times, partnering with Shruti Kurien and later Ashwini Ponnappa. She was the wife of Chetan Anand, an Arjuna  Awardee; however, the two divorced in 2011.   Jwala was born on 7 September 1983 in Wardha, Maharashtra  and brought up in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, to a Telugu  Indian father and a Chinese mother. Jwala's father, Kranti Gutta, hailed from a family of freedom fighters and Leftists.   In the doubles event though, her performance has been better as entered the Semi Final round of her second International Doubles tournament, the India Asia Satellite tournament 2002In