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Jan 13, 2025 08:15 PM IST Irwansyah Adi Pratama has been appointed coach for India's women's badminton team, including PV Sindhu, as BAI focuses on group training for improvement. New Delhi: Indonesia’s Irwansyah Adi Pratama…

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty's impressive run at the Malaysia Super 1000 badminton tournament came to an end following a straight-game loss to Korea's Kim Won Ho and Seo Seung Jae in the semifinals, here on Saturday.…

Jan 10, 2025 07:47 PM IST Satwik and Chirag, runners-up in the previous edition, will face South Korea's Won Ho Kim and Seung Jae Seo in the semifinals. Star Indian men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag…

Jan 08, 2025 03:51 PM IST Overcoming a delay caused by water leaking from the roof, Prannoy eliminated his Canadian rival Brian Yang 21-12, 17-21, 21-15. India's number two shuttler HS Prannoy and rising shuttler Malvika…

Jan 07, 2025 09:19 PM IST Paris Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen and An Se Young headline the Yonex-Sunrise India Open, featuring top Indian players from Jan 14-19 in Delhi. New Delhi: Paris Olympic champions Viktor Axelsen…

Jan 07, 2025 04:32 PM IST Malaysia Open: HS Prannoy's match was halted due to a stadium roof leak.  Malaysia Open Super 1000 witnessed bizarre scenes on Tuesday. First-round matches on Court 2 and Court 3 were halted after…

Dec 26, 2024 11:34 PM IST India's Lakshya Sen met badminton legend Lin Dan in Shenzhen, on Thursday. Ace Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen is set to compete in the King Cup International Badminton Open 2024, which is scheduled to…

Mumbai: Through the “extremely up and down” last three months that Satwiksairaj Rankireddy describes his post-Olympics period as, there is one thing that brings a smile on his face. “Just playing badminton after a while felt so good,” he…

Currently placed 32nd in the BWF women’s singles ranking, Malvika Bansod has already established herself among the top shuttlers in the world. Having made headlines for winning the silver medal at the 2022 Syed Modi International…

Bhubaneswar, A Badminton High Performance Centre was inaugurated at the iconic Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Thursday. HT Image Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Assam CM Himant Biswa Sarma, also the president of the…

It had been a far from ideal year for Treesa Jolly and P Gayatri Gopichand. Since the end of the Tokyo Olympics, the duo was the country’s top women’s doubles pair, slowly rising up the rankings but favourites to qualify for the Paris…

Dec 08, 2024 06:24 PM IST The first glimpse of PV Sindhu and Venkata Datta Sai's wedding card is here! The duo visited Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday. PV Sindhu, the double Olympic medallist is all set to tie the knot with…

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…