London Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal will participate in next month’s US Open for the first time in her career. The 27-year-old, who has won 23 Individual titles across the globe, will look to clinch her first US Open title when she spearheads the Indian challenge at the Grand Prix Gold tournament to be held from July 19th to 23rd. […]
» Read moreBhamidipati Sai Praneeth is on a roll as he completed a come-from-behind win to keep his good run going. Six weeks after winning the Singapore Open Super Series, the 24-year-old clinched his first Grand Prix Gold title clinching the $120,000 Thailand Open with a hard fought 17-21, 21-18, 21-19 victory against Christie Jonatan of Indonesia in Bangkok on Sunday.
» Read moreThe Andhra Pradesh Legislature on Tuesday passed a Bill to appoint Olympics silver medal winning shuttler PV Sindhu as a Group-1 officer in the government, by amending the state public services Act. Certain provisions in the Andhra Pradesh (Regulation of Appointments to Public Services and Rationalisation of Staff Pattern and Pay Structure) Act, 1994, prevented the appointment of the badminton […]
» Read moreLast month, B Sai Praneeth and Kidambi Srikanth made history by becoming the first Indian badminton pair to reach the final of a Superseries when they faced each other in the summit clash of the Singapore Open. It was a win-win situation for Indian badminton, but for 24-year-old Sai this was a huge occasion, for he had never in his […]
» Read moreIndian star P.V. Sindhu went down fighting to Bingjiao of China in the women’s singles quarter-finals in the Badminton Asia Championships 2017 on Friday. The fourth seeded Sindhu won the first game before the eighth seeded Chinese staged a comeback to win 15-21, 21-14, 24-22 in one hour and 17 minutes.
» Read moreIndian shuttler PV Sindhu stormed into the second round at the Badminton Asia Championships with a straight-game victory over Indonesia’s Dinar Dyah Ayustine while Saina Nehwal suffered a defeat at the hands of unseeded Sayaka Sato of Japan. Sindhu took just 31 minutes to outplay her unseeded opponent 21-8, 21-18. Saina went down fighting 21-19, 16-21, 18-21 against Sayaka Sato.
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