Pullela Gopichand's wife VVS Lakshmi herself has been a national level shuttler. She represented India in 1996 Atlanta Olympics. This national level player knows very well what it takes to be a champion. She knows the restrictions that are faced by the wannabe players. Lack of good facility, good coach and infrastructure cripple the prospects even of the best and promising players. She knows this as she herself has faced all this and more. Lakshmi feels that the best thing that Sidhu had was the coaching of her husband Gopichand. Lakhsmi stresses that if she had a coach like him, then sky was the limit for her. This she said while talking to an English daily.