New Delhi: Spanish badminton star Carolina Marin is on the same page with India’s Saina Nehwal, who on Wednesday hit out at the cramped schedule of the Badminton World Federation.

Addressing reporters at the launch of the third edition of the Premier Badminton League (PBL), Saina advocated for a five-week Grand Slam tournament like tennis instead of the various Superseries, held almost every week across the globe.

“Being a player, I can definitely say that it is not easy to play so many back to back tournaments. If you want to make badminton like tennis, you need to have four-five big five-week Grand Slam like tournament where you have big money,” Saina said.

Asked about the burden of playing the Nationals in the middle of a packed international calendar, the Hyderabadi shuttler said: “Nationals is not much of a burden as compared to BWF calendar. The nationals just last for three days whereas Superseries goes on for five days.

“For Indians the next year is going to be tougher because of Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.”

Echoing the views of the former World No.1 Indian, Marin said: “I totally agree with what Saina said on the scheduling. There are so many tournaments that we hardly find any time to recover.” The third edition of the eight-team PBL starts in Guwahati on Dec.23.

Indo-Asian News Service