Indian para-shuttler Sanjeev Kumar who has brought laurels for the country is struggling for funds for the upcoming tournaments and urged the government to provide financial assistance to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics."I was at the fourth rank in the race to Tokyo Olympics in April this year but now my ranking has come down to tenth as I have missed China, Denmark and Japan tournaments. I had a very good opportunity to win gold in Denmark but I could not due to lack of fund," Sanjeev told ANI."I have to play a future tournament to qualify for the Olympics and for that I have written to Punjab Sports Department to help me saying that I am the top contender to qualify for Olympics but they replied that we can't give money," he added.The Punjab shuttler is the only Indian from wheelchair category who is in top 10 of the rankings. In world rankings, he was at the sixth spot during April but now he is on 13th because did not play tournaments regularly."I had also written to the Sport ...
