Category: Badminton

Defending champion Saina Nehwal and two-time World Championship bronze medallist PV Sindhu advanced to the quarter-finals but it turned out to be a dismal day for star shuttlers Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei, who crashed out of the India Open Super Series on Thursday. Sindhu was a little circumspect during the match and committed a few unforced errors before […]

Saina Nehwal’s wait for the prestigious All England title continues following her loss to Tzu Ying Tai of Chinese Taipei 21-15, 21-16 in the quarter-finals at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham on Friday. With Saina’s loss, Indian challenge at the blue riband event of world badminton came to an end. In spite of attaining the No.1 rank last year and […]

Age is just a number for Jayendra Dhole. The experienced campaigner brought laurels to the city by emerging champion in the 40th Indian Masters (Veteran) National Badminton Championships at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on Friday. Playing in the 35 plus men’s doubles category, Dhole and his partner Sameer Bhagwat of Pune overcame tough competition to clinch their maiden title. Incidentally, Dhole […]

India on Thursday defeated a depleted China 3-2 in the men’s category of the Badminton Asia Team Championships at the Gachibowli indoor stadium in Hyderabad. K. Srikanth, Ajay Jayaram and H.S. Prannoy emerged triumphant in their respective singles matches to give India the victory. In the five-match tie, India won the three singles but lost the two doubles matches. India’s […]

India sailed into the quarterfinals of Badminton Asia Team Championship with a comprehensive 5-0 victory over Singapore in Hyderabad on Wednesday. India, thus, made a strong comeback after suffering a defeat to China in their first Group A tie on Monday. Each tie comprises three singles and two doubles matches. To begin with, Kidambi Srikanth scored a comfortable 21-16, 12-21, […]

World No.2 Saina Nehwal will spearhead India’s campaign in women’s singles while World No. 9 Kidambi Srikanth will be highest-ranked Indian in men’s singles at the South Asian Games next month. Apart from Saina and Srikanth, double World Championship bronze medallist P.V. Sindhu and 2014 Commonwealth Games (CWG) champion Parupalli Kashyap, H.S. Prannoy, Ajay Jayaram, Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa […]