[3] He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001,[4] becoming the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone.

In 1996, he won a gold in the SAARC badminton tournament at Vijayawada and defended his crown in the next games held at Colombo in 1997.

At the 1998 Commonwealth Games, he won a silver in the team event and a bronze in men's singles.

He also emerged as the winner at the Asian satellite tournament held at Hyderabad in the same year, and lost in the final match of the German Grand Prix Championship.

[24] The academy produced several badminton players including Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Sai Praneeth, Parupalli Kashyap, Srikanth Kidambi, Arundhati Pantawane, Gurusai Datt, and Arun Vishnu.

[28][29] The efforts have been successful with a number of their athletes earning national and international medals, like Deepthi Jeevanji (World record holder in the 400m T20 category), Nandini Agasara (Bronze medalist in the Heptathlon event of the 2022 Asian Games), Rangali Swathi, Kunja Rajitha (400m Gold Medalist in Indian Youth Games 2022).

[30][28] Rewards for Coaching the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics silver medallist P. V. Sindhu Pullela married fellow badminton player P. V. V. Lakshmi on 5 June 2002.

[36] They have two children, daughter Gayatri Gopichand, who is a women's doubles badminton player, and son Vishnu.