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Star Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth advanced to the men's singles quarterfinals of the Macau Open Super 300 badminton tournament with a straight-game victory over compatriot Ayush Shetty in the second round on Thursday. Kidambi…

Sep 24, 2024 01:44 PM IST Indian para shuttlers won five medals, including one gold, two silver and as many bronze, at the Paris Games. Badminton Association of India (BAI) president and Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta…

Sep 23, 2024 10:45 PM IST He has been training the two-time Olympic medallist since the start of September at Hyderabad’s Gachibowli Stadium New Delhi: Indian badminton superstar PV Sindhu has brought in Anup Sridhar as her…

Malvika Bansod lost to two-time former world champion Akane Yamaguchi on Friday but not before creating a flutter at the $2 million China Open, one of the four highest tier competitions on the BWF World Tour. Indian shuttler Malvika…

Sep 09, 2024 04:57 PM IST Saina Nehwal had hit the headlines for comments she had made about India's campaign at the Paris Olympics.  Saina Nehwal broke a glass ceiling for Indian badminton at the 2012 London Olympics by…

Ace Indian shuttler and former Olympic bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal has revealed that she is battling arthritis and will have to decide on her future in badminton by the end of this year as the ailment has made it impossible for her to…

New Delhi: Nitesh Kumar’s life took an unexpected turn after a train accident in 2009 led to amputation of his left leg. From childhood to teenage days, Nitesh loved playing football, but destiny cruelly snatched away his passion from…

Aug 29, 2024 03:44 PM IST When Lakshya was shown the memes, drawing similarities between his insane return and Kohli's six, the Indian shuttler said he wouldn't mind the comparison. Leading 19-18 in the first game of a must-win…

LUCKNOW: A tricky draw, especially in the mixed doubles SL3-SL5 category, caught India by surprise as soon as the 13-member team of shuttlers landed in Paris for the Paralympics on Sunday. The team went through the draw carefully, started…

Aug 26, 2024 03:47 PM IST HS Prannoy, who recently represented India in the Paris Olympics, said that the battle with Chikungunya has taken a toll on his body. Ace India badminton star HS Prannoy has withdrawn his name from the…

LUCKNOW: Badminton World Federation suspending Tokyo Paralympics badminton gold medallist Pramod Bhagat for 18 months after three whereabouts failures may have surprised many, but the other 13 shuttlers bound for the Paris Paralympics…

A month ago, Kolkata Knight Riders' rising sensation, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, took a brutal dig at the ace shuttler Saina Nehwal with a "Jasprit Bumrah" tweet, which he later deleted amid backlash. Albeit not in direct response to that…

Jul 25, 2024 09:24 AM IST PV Sindhu is aiming at doing something no other Indian has been able to do in the history of the Olympics thus far. PV Sindhu is among the Indian athletes in Paris preparing for the 2024 Olympics.…

One of India’s biggest hopes for an Olympic medal in Paris, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were on Monday handed a favourable draw for the quadrennial showpiece that will commence on July 26. Badminton competition starts the…

Jul 10, 2024 11:23 PM IST Padukone, the first Indian to win the All England Championship, retired in 1991 even as badminton was introduced in the Olympics at the 1992 Barcelona Games. Legendary Prakash Padukone is set to travel…

Mumbai: Saina Nehwal would not want to put a number on the probable medal count that the Indian badminton contingent can come up with at the Paris Olympics, but there was one she had no qualms in announcing. Badminton ace Saina Nehwal…

HS Prannoy was looking to extend his fine run of 2023 this year. Last season turned out to be the finest in a long career as the Kerala shuttler won bronze medals in both the World Championships as well as the Asian Games. He also reached…

NEW DELHI: Away from all the noise and chatter regarding the Olympics, PV Sindhu has quietly settled down at her temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the small German town of Saarbrucken. For more than a month, PV Sindhu will…

Korean coach Yoo Yong-sung, who had a brief spell as Lakshya Sen’s coach in 2022, has been brought back to assist in the training of the Indian youngster ahead of the Paris Olympics. He’s expected to travel to Marseille with Lakshya for…

It’s mid morning at the Dravid Padukone academy and PV Sindhu and Nehwal are on either side of the net, smacking the shuttle at each other. It’s not Nehwal, her senior, storied rival and first Indian Olympic medalist in badminton. Neer…

India's challenge ended at the Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament with star shuttler Lakshya Sen bowing out in the quarterfinals of the men's singles event in Jakarta on Friday. Lakshya Sen of India(AP) Sen, ranked 14th in the world,…

After ousting the defending and the 2023 All England champions in the previous two rounds, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand were eyeing a three-peat at the Singapore Open Super 750 badminton tournament on Saturday. India's Gayatri…

It hasn’t been an easy couple of months for Treesa Jolly and P Gayatri Gopichand. Despite having been the country’s top women’s doubles exponents for the last few years, the world No.30 combine was pipped by new pairing Ashwini Ponnappa…

Five meetings, six years. That’s how long it had been since PV Sindhu had beaten rival and three-time world champion Carolina Marin. On Thursday, in the 17th chapter of their rivalry, the twice Olympic medallist came close to beating the…

World No. 1 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty crashed out of the Singapore Open after suffering a shock defeat against Denmark's world number 34 Daniel Lundgaard and Mads Vestergaard in the opening round of men's doubles…

Leading 11-3 in the decider, PV Sindhu was well on her way to her first title in almost two years. The former world champion was aggressive in her approach, was winning points at the net and displaying the agility one hasn’t seen from her…

It’s been a long wait. PV Sindhu finally managed to reach a final after 14 months, after overcoming a slow start to win the semi-final at the $420,000 Malaysia Masters in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. India's PV Sindhu beat world No.20…

Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu on Saturday earned a shot at the Malaysia Masters crown after making it to the women's singles finals with a come-from-behind win over Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan here. Sindhu had won the 2022…

It hasn’t been an easy return to the circuit for PV Sindhu. Out for nearly four months due to a left knee injury, the two-time Olympic medallist made a comeback to the tour in February. The fifth seeded Sindhu took 55 minutes to move…

Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu took a giant stride towards securing a title at the Malaysia Masters after progressing to the semifinals with a hard-fought win over top seed Han Yue of China, on Friday. PV Sindhu in action.(PTI)…