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Lakshya Samhita defeated Nakshatra 15-12, 15-10 in summit to emerge champion.

India’s Navya Kanderi bagged top honours in the women’s singles of the Kotak India Junior International Series. She defeated Isharani Baruah 21-15, 21-18 in the summit clash to emerge champion.

India’s Navya Kanderi stunned fifth seeded Ong Xin Yee of Malaysia 21-12, 21-18 in the women’s semifinal of the Kotak India Junior International Series

On Friday, Top seed Justin Hoh from Malaysia thrashed India’s Ansh Negi 21-14, 21-11 to enter quarterfinals at the under-19 boys singles of the Kotak India Junior International Series, held at the Kotak Gopichand Badminton academy at Gachibowli.

Tokyo: Star Indian men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Reddy and Chirag Shetty assured themselves of a maiden medal at the World Championships after stunning world number 2 Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan in the quarterfinals here on Friday. The world number 7 Indian combination, which had claimed the Commonwealth Games gold medal earlier […]

Hyderabad: Akshat Reddy Gavva defeated Kumar Mohith 22-20, 21-15 in the first round of the Kotak India Junior International Series held at the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy, Hyderabad on Tuesday. Results (Round one): Singles: Men: Akshat Reddy Gavva bt Kumar Mohith 22-20, 21-15, Ansh Negi bt Ayush Kamal 21-5, 21-7, Aryan Tushir bt Shahid Ibrahim […]

New Delhi: The Indian badminton contingent is back home after a brilliant performance at the recently concluded 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and Chirag Shetty were on Wednesday welcomed by supporters and family members with bouquets at the Hyderabad airport early after they returned from Birmingham. India finished its Commonwealth Games […]

Birmingham: Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu clinched India’s first gold medal in Badminton at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 and the first women’s singles CWG gold medal of her career by defeating Canada’s Michelle Li in the final on Monday. Sindhu was a dominant figure in the match, though her opponent competed well. The Indian […]

Birmingham: Star Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth had another easy outing as they stormed into the quarterfinals of the women’s and men’s singles events respectively with comfortable wins at the Commonwealth Games here on Friday. Sindhu, a silver medallist at the 2018 edition, expectedly faced no resistance from Uganda’s Husina Kobugabe, winning […]

Birmingham: PV Sindhu was the only one to win her match while former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth suffered defeat as India went down to Malaysia 1-3 in the final of the mixed team competition to settle for silver in the 2022 Commonwealth Games here. The Indian contingent had reached Birmingham as defending champions in […]

Birmingham: The men’s and women’s table tennis teams, the star-studded badminton line-up and the women’s hockey team won their respective first-round matches as did boxer Shiv Thapa as India made a good start at the Commonwealth Games here on Friday. There was some more success for the country as backstroke swimmer Srihari Nataraj qualified for […]

Singapore: Olympic medalist PV Sindhu made a winning start to her Singapore Open 2022 campaign, defeating Belgium’s Lianne Tan in the first round of the Women’s singles category on Wednesday. Playing on court 1, PV Sindhu won the match within two straight games by margin of 21-15, 21-11. She was extremely dominant against her Belgian […]

New Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Saturday deactivated the IDs (identity documents) of two players for being overaged but said their quantum of punishment will be decided later by the Age Fraud Committee. Multiple cases of age-fudging were reported during the All India Sub-Junior under-13 ranking tournament (June 19 to 25) in […]

Warangal: The Warangal District Badminton Association will conduct District Tournament cum Team Selections for participation in the ensuing State Badminton Championships to be held at various places from August 1 to 3 at Warangal Club said association secretary Dr P Ramesh Reddy. In a press note here on Monday, he said that the players of […]

Hyderabad: Telangana’s doubles pair of Girivasan Saravana Kumar and Shashank Vanamala bagged top honours in the U-13 boys category of the Yonex-Sunrise All India Sub-Junior U-13 Ranking Badminton Tournament held at the Chetan Anand Badminton Academy, Ameenpur, Hyderabad on Saturday. Saravana Kumar and Shashank defeated second seeded Bornil Akash Changmai and Sumit Sinha of Assam […]

What the 1983 world cup win was for cricket, the Thomas Cup victory is for Indian Badminton. Both the achievements are extraordinarily significant because the odds were stacked against India. It’s a moment of glory that brought cheers to the sport lovers in the country. In the 73-year history of Thomas Cup tournament, the top […]

Bangkok: HS Prannoy produced a lion-hearted effort in the decisive fifth match as the Indian men’s badminton team scripted history by reaching the title clash of the Thomas Cup Final for the first time ever with a 3-2 victory in an edge-of-the-seat semifinal, here. Indian team, which never went past the semifinals after 1979, showed […]

Mancherial: Collector Bharati Hollikeri advised the students to utilise various sports camps being organised by District Sports Authority in summer holidays. She inaugurated a summer badminton camp here on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Bharati said that sports play a vital role to mental and physical growth of the students. She told the managements of […]

New Delhi: Teen sensation Unnati Hooda, 14, was on Thursday named in the Indian badminton team for the upcoming Asian Games as the national federation announced the squads for the major events this year, including the Commonwealth Games, Thomas and Uber Cup. The teams were named by Badminton Association of India (BAI) following six days […]

Suncheon (Korea): India’s latest badminton sensation Lakshya Sen and double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu will lead the Indian campaign at the Korea Open Super 500 tournament starting here on Tuesday. With back-to-back finals at German Open and All England Championships, Sen is in the form of his life and will look to be third […]