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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNEW DELHI: Neeru Dhanda does not need to be aggressive to show her competitive side. \u201cLook into her eyes,\u201d says Mansher Singh, her coach of seven years.The 25-year-old shooter on Tuesday became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games gold in trap, following her World Cup triumph in Italy in July. For Mansher, who has watched Neeru develop since she was 18, the performance was another expression of a quality he has seen throughout her career.\u201cShe has a lot of fire in her belly. If in the final, she will go all guns blazing and that\u2019s what she did,\u201d Mansher told TimesofIndia.com in an exclusive interview.Neeru shot 28 in the final in Aichi-Nagoya, surpassing the previous Asian record of 24. She had earlier won a silver medal in the women’s trap team event at the Games.The Asian Games gold came less than three months after Neeru became the first Indian woman to win an individual World Cup gold in trap, at the Shotgun World Cup in Italy. At Aichi-Nagoya, after the individual gold, she claimed her second gold in the mixed team events to add to the silver she clicnhed in the women\u2019s team trap event.\u201cShe is not aggressive at all. If you want to see the aggression, look into her eyes,\u201d Mansher said.\u201cI\u2019m just proud and happy that she\u2019s got what she deserves because she\u2019s very hardworking and very determined to be successful and, more importantly, to achieve. She has achieved things which have not happened in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n Mansher believes the back-to-back titles have changed the conversation around his student.\u201cSo she wants to go to new heights, and this is exactly what she\u2019s doing now. She\u2019s won the last two big competitions. She\u2019ll be the first Indian woman to do this, you know. So, winning the World Cup and Asian Games in the same year, almost back to back, is incredible,\u201d he said.Neeru’s rise has also been accompanied by a change in the way she handles the pressure around her.<\/p>\n Neeru Dhanda and Mansher Singh (Image credit: Special arrangement)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cShe used to fight with me a lot. Then I would say, \u2018I\u2019m like your father.\u2019 Then she would say, \u2018Yes, I can\u2019t fight with my father.\u2019 Then she would come back to normal,\u201d Mansher recalled.\u201cBut she was an emotional person. She\u2019s much more mature now. She\u2019s able to take her decisions and think about the consequences.\u201dThe coach was also closely involved when Neeru fell ill shortly before the Asian Games.She was admitted to PSRI Hospital in Chirag Delhi after a viral fever did not improve with medication. Even while on the hospital bed, Mansher said, Neeru remained focused on the competition ahead.\u201cSir, medal lana hai desh ke liye. This is all she had been saying while on the hospital bed. I was just happy and worried at the same time,\u201d he recalled.Neeru was discharged and travelled to Japan without much time to recover.Mansher’s message to her before she left was simple.\u201cYou should be happy that God has blessed you with the opportunity to go after being so sick for eight days that you were in hospital. Enjoy yourself and celebrate,\u201d he told her.<\/p>\n With the World Cup and Asian Games titles now secured in the same year, attention will turn to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.India’s last Olympic shotgun medal came through Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who won silver in men’s double trap at Athens 2004. Since then, India have not won an Olympic medal in shotgun.Mansher, who represented India at four Olympics – Los Angeles 1984, Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 – said the Olympic target has long been part of their conversations.\u201cI think we don\u2019t have to worry about that. She\u2019s very centred. She knows that\u2019s her goal. She\u2019s not going to take a gold medal at the World Cup and at the Asian Games and make it so big that she loses sight of her ultimate goal,\u201d Mansher said.\u201cAnd it\u2019s always been a conversation amongst us that, you know, the Olympic medal is the first thing. The Olympics are the first and last thing in this sport.\u201dFor Mansher, the two gold medals have provided something more useful than simply another set of titles.\u201cBut overall, there\u2019s proof enough to say that you are definitely in that league or in that conversation to be a medalist at the Olympics,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n Neeru Dhanda (Image credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Neeru Dhanda does not need to be aggressive to show her competitive side. \u201cLook into her eyes,\u201d says Mansher Singh, her coach of seven years.The 25-year-old shooter on Tuesday became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games gold in trap, following her World Cup triumph 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