Just in: Saina Nehwal returns to the Gopichand Centre. Three years after parting ways, National coach Pullela Gopichand and his star player Saina Nehwal seem to have buried the hatchet.

Saina, who started talking to the coach during the World Championships in Glasgow a week back, began training at his academy recently.

In 2015, when asked what went wrong with Gopichand as her coach, Saina said their off-court planning was not fructifying on the court as she was losing to players like China's Li Xuerui.

"I cannot exactly say what happened but the training which I got was not up to the mark. We discussed on my game but whatever we applied on the court did not work out for me. My game required something different, something else," she said.

"Not every coach can read the game properly. Sometimes, the coach may not know how to improve from one stage to another. Somehow I got stuck at one place, not improving from that zone," she added.