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Ponnappa and Crasto lost their opening match of the multi-sport event in straight sets to South Korea's Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong
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Birmingham: Indian shuttlers dished out another splendid show to take an unassailable 3-0 lead over a hapless Sri Lanka in their second group A match of the mixed team competition at the 22nd Commonwealth Games here on Saturday. A day after blanking Pakistan 5-0, India notched up another convincing win to go to the top […]
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New Delhi: Men’s singles top seed and World Championship silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth along with six other players was on Thursday forced to withdraw from the ongoing India Open badminton championship after testing positive for Covid-19. The others who tested positive for Covid-19 were doubles specialist Ashwini Ponnappa, Ritika Rahul Thakkar, Treesa Jolly, Mithun Manjunath, […]
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Hyderabad: For Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy, there were reasons to celebrate on Friday when they came to know that they have qualified to play in the year-end World Tour Finals that will be held in Bali (Indonesia) from December 1 to 4. Although ranked 24th in the world in women’s doubles and the non-participation […]
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The Indian pair, seeded second, squandered an opening game advantage to lose 21-15,19-21,14-21 to the Danish combination in just under an hour's contest.
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If only the Covid-19 pandemic had not happened it would have been a different story, said the badminton player
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V-Care Foundation is planning to auction memorabilia of famous personalities like film stars and sports persons to help people fight Covid
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Ashwini and Sikki had reached the second round on Wednesday after a 21-9, 17-21, 21-19 win over Denmark's Amalie Magelund and Freja Ravn.
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Ashwini and Sikki lost the match 22-24, 12-21 in 39 minutes, thus leaving Lakshya Sen and reigning world champion PV Sindhu as the only Indians remaining in the Super 1000 tournament.
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Satwiksairaj and Ashwini showed top-notch fighting spirit before going down to World No 13 and No 5 pair -Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing of Malaysia
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Mixed doubles pair Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy stunned Indonesian second seeded pair Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja on Tuesday.
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Rankireddy and Ponnappa defeated the World no. 8 pair in straight games 21-18, 21-10 in the encounter that lasted for 38 minutes. Indian pair will now proceed to the second round of the tournament.
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“I’m happy that we broke into the top 20. In 2019 we could not play too many tournaments as I was injured and because of the Covid-19 pandemic," said 31-year-old Ashwini, who trains in Bengaluru.
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Satwiksairaj and Ashwini have made a jump of 16 places and are placed at the 19th spot in the rankings which got updated on Tuesday.
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Doubles player rates his performance with Ashwini in mixed doubles as the best in his career
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The Indian men’s and mixed doubles pair make exit in Thailand Open
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Satwiksairaj and Ashwini defeated their German opponents 22-20, 14-21, 21-16 in a match that lasted for 56 minutes.
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Set to become first Indian husband-wife duo to play a badminton Super Series event
