With the aim to enhance the performance of the badminton players at the international level, 40 of them would be undergoing state -of-the-art training and exposure, said the Sports Ministry on Tuesday.

35 players-19men and 16 women have been selected to be included in the ‘core group’ of sportspersons under the scheme of ‘Preparation of Indian Teams for Commonwealth Games 2010.’ To provide better guidance and training to the players, eight Indian and two foreign coaches have also been selected.

The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has been asked by the committee of the Ministry to provide some more names of the players, since there is scope for training 20 shuttlers each in women and men Cedres.

Other than this, BAI would also be giving names of supporting staffs that would include sports analyst, exercise physiologist, physiotherapist, masseur and masseuse.

The program of the training will commence at the SAI Centres in Lucknow, Bangalore and Gandhinagar.

Names of the selected players and coaches are as follows:-

Players: Men: Anup Sridhar, Chetan Anand, Arvind Bhatt, Anand Pawar, P. Kashyap, Ajay Jayaram, Guru Sai Dutt, Abhimanyu Singh, Saurabh Verma, Aditya Prakash, Sanave Thomas, Rupesh Kumar, V. Diju, Akshay Dewalkar, Alwyn Francis, Shankar Goan, Arun Vishnu, K. Tarun, Pranav Chopda. Women: Saina Nehwal, Aditi Mutatkar, Trupti Murgunde, Gayatri Vartak, Arundhati Pantawane, Sikki Reddy, P.C. Thulasi, Prajakta Sawant, Jwala Gutta, Shruti Kurien, Ashwini Ponnappa, Nitya Sosale, P. Jyotsna, Anjali Kalita, Shweta Kelkar, Pradnya Gadre. Coaches: P. Gopi Chand, Sanjiv Sachdeva, Surinder Mahajan, Vijaydeep Singh, Ajay Kanwar, Bhaskar Babu, Siddharth Jain, Manjusha Kanwar, Atik Jauhari (Indonesia), Jason Krufort (Australia).