Category: Badminton

Parupalli Kashyap advanced to the semifinals of the Korea Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament after edging past Korea’s Jeon Hyeok Jin in a three-game thriller on Friday.

Kashyap reached the quarter-finals of the Korea Masters Grand Prix Gold after notching up a thrilling three-game win over China’s Zhou Zeqi in the men’s singles competition on Thursday. Kashyap defeated Zeqi 21-11, 13-21, 21-8 in a match that lasted 45 minutes. Kashyap will next take on local shuttler Jeon Hyeok Jin, sixth seed.

India’s Parupalli Kashyapreached the second round of the men’s singles competition at the $120,000 Korea Masters Grand Prix Gold on Tuesday. The Commonwealth Games champion entered the second round after his rival Kang Min Woo pulled out of the tournament. He will next take on fourth seed Wang Tzu Wei of Korea at the Seogwipo Olympic Stadium. A former top […]

Saina Nehwal has been knocked out of the Macau Open 2016 as she lost to Yiman Zhang in straight games on Friday. Former World No.1 Saina, who is slowly trying to come back to her best after recovering from a major knee injury which affected her Olympic campaign, found the going tough today, going down 12-21, 17-21 to Zhang in […]

PV Sindhu’s maiden China Open title and her subsequent runners-up finish at the Hong Kong Open, helped her gain two spots to the No. 7 spot in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) women’s singles rankings. Image: BWF Badminton

Top seed Saina Nehwal registered another narrow victory over Indonesia’s Dinar Dyah Ayustine to reach the quarter-finals of the Macau Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament on Thursday. She bounced back from a game down to see off Ayustine 17-21, 21-18, 21-12 in a match which lasted over an hour in the women’s singles competition