Mathias Boe is an extremely passionate and methodical coach, who has brought in discipline, rigour and layers of tactical awareness while taking Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty to World No.1. The Olympic silver medallist from the last time the Games happened in Europe, also used to be an extremely competitive player, who battled the combined Asian might of skilled and speedy Chinese, Koreans, Malaysians and Indonesians as a defiant title contender from Europe. His success didn’t always come from being nice and polite towards opponents, and there were a fair few forgettable furies on court. But perhaps the mercurial ways were only an extension of his deeply competitive, loss-abhorring mentality, that he needed to channel to find an edge against the rampaging doubles legends of the day. The Dane’s game was cerebral, with canny shuttle placement and outthinking opponents, and he brings that nous to the power-packed Indians. Intuitive strategy is tough to teach, but Boe has worked hard to train his charges. Temperament wise, the court bearing of Satwik-Chirag, who look up to Indonesian …