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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, […]

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 […]

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.

If only the Covid-19 pandemic had not happened it would have been a different story, said the badminton player

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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.

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.

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

Mixed doubles pair Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy stunned Indonesian second seeded pair Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja on Tuesday.

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.