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Dec 03, 2024 08:32 AM IST PV Sindhu will tie the knot with IT professional Venkata Datta Sai on December 22 Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu is set to get married later this month. It has emerged that Sindhu, widely rated…

Dec 03, 2024 05:14 AM IST India’s badminton ace will get married to Hyderabad-based tech company executive in Udaipur on December 22 NEW DELHI: Double badminton Olympic medallist PV Sindhu is set to get married on December…

LUCKNOW: PV Sindhu let out that familiar victory roar, the face easing into a happy grin. The dream of a third successive Olympics podium didn’t happen in Paris, and the scene wasn’t one of the BWF Tour’s feature events. And she wasn’t…

Top seeded Indians P V Sindhu and Lakshya Sen showcased their class and dominance to clinch the women's and men's singles titles, respectively, at the Syed Modi International badminton tournament here on Sunday. Top-seeded PV Sindhu in…

Lucknow: Top Indian shuttlers Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu marched into the finals of the men’s and women’s singles respectively at the Syed Modi India international badminton tournament, notching up semi-final wins in straight games here on…

Lucknow: Parupalli Kashyap finds the badminton scene in India “quite disappointing.” The former world No.6, a full-time coach at Gopichand Badminton Academy, called for greater professionalism. Player-turned-coach Parupalli Kashyap…

Lucknow: An avid fan of Olympics medallists PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal, young Unnati Hooda represents the next generation of women shuttlers in India. She follows Sindhu’s matches closely, and the trend continued at the ongoing Syed Modi…

Lucknow: There is no match between two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and compatriot Ira Sharma as far as world rankings are concerned. While former world champion Sindhu is placed 18th in the world, Sharma is at 147th position, and the…

Lucknow: Changes is the topic of discussion in Indian badminton, especially the future of women’s singles since two-time Olympic medallist and former world champion PV Sindhu’s exit in the Paris Olympics last 16 stage. PV Sindhu is…

Nov 18, 2024 08:35 PM IST India's top badminton duo, Rankireddy and Shetty, return at the $1.15M China Masters after a 3.5-month break, facing Taiwan's Lee and Yang first. New Delhi: India’s finest men’s badminton doubles…

The Badminton Association of India (BAI) hopes to slowly reduce the culture of personal coaches in favour of group training sessions under national coaches going ahead in the current Olympic cycle. India’s star doubles pair of…

Insisting that she still has a lot to offer and potential to win many more titles on the demanding BWF circuit, star Indian shuttler P V Sindhu on Friday said the 2028 Los Angeles Games remains on her radar. By the time the biggest…

Oct 18, 2024 08:36 PM IST The loss continues a season of discontent for PV Sindhu, who returned empty-handed from the Paris Games. Indian star PV Sindhu bowed out with a quarterfinal loss to Paris Olympics bronze-winner…

Who after Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu? India’s next gen of women’s singles shuttlers are still nowhere close to challenging Sindhu. (REUTERS) This question has hounded Indian badminton for years. While the two shuttle queens kept…

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…