Actor Sushanth joins the Hyderabad Pickleball League as owner of team ALL STARS, with Sameer Verma as captain. Auction on August 20; matches run every Friday from October 11 to November 28.
Kuala Lumpur: India’s HS Prannoy faced stiff resistance before prevailing against local hero Daren Liew as the Indian shuttler progressed to the men’s singles second round of the Malaysia Open, here on Tuesday. A former top-10 player, Prannoy, who had reached the semifinals of Indonesia Open Super 1000 earlier this month, emerged a 21-14,17-21,21-18 winner […]
Jakarta: One of the heroes of India’s epic Thomas Cup triumph, HS Prannoy continued his rich vein of form as he stormed into the quarterfinals of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament with a straight-game win over Hong Kong’s Ng Ka Long Angus here on Thursday. The 29-year-old from Kerala, who is desperately looking to […]
Odense: Returning to action after a break, double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu saw off Turkey’s eslihan Yigit in straight games to join compatriots Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma in the second round of the Denmark Open here on Tuesday. Sindhu, the reigning world champion, took 30 minutes to get across Yigit, ranked 29th, 21-12,21-10 in […]
Aarhus: India will look up to their star players, including Saina Nehwal and men’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, to quickly recover from the Sudirman Cup drubbing and produce a better show at the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals beginning here on Saturday. With their stars missing and senior players out of […]
However, ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal exited the event after retiring hurt in the first round match (21-8, 10-4) against Danish badminton player Mia Blichfeldt.
Srikanth, seeded fourth in the tournament, will now face France's Thomas Rouxel in the second round after the latter beat Canada's Xiadong Sheng 21-18, 21-14 in his first round match.
Olympic silver medallist Sindhu expectedly outclassed Malaysia's world no. 92 Kisona Selvaduray 21-10,21-12 in a lop-sided second-round contest that lasted just 35 minutes
