Category: Badminton

Three-time champion Saina Nehwal staved off a challenge from a lower-ranked Pai Yu Po of Chinese Taipei to make a positive start to her women’s singles campaign at the USD 900,000 Indonesia Super Series Premier badminton tournament here on Tuesday. Eighth seed Saina recovered from a mid-game slump to register a 21-11, 19-21, 21-15 win over World No. 23 Pai Yu Po […]

China easily beat defending champion Japan 5-0 in their final Group A badminton match on Wednesday, while Denmark, looking for its maiden Thomas Cup title, won Group D with a 3-2 victory against Taiwan. Japan felt the absence of Kento Momota as China, which had already qualified for the quarterfinals, topped its group with its third successive victory, which included wins […]

The Indian women’s team qualified for the Uber Cup badminton tournament quarterfinals despite suffering a narrow 2-3 loss to powerhouse Japan in its third and final Group D match, in Kunshan on Wednesday.     Photo: PTI

After clinching a historic bronze medal in the last edition, the Indian women’s team, led by Saina Nehwal , will eye another good show but it will be an uphill task for the depleted men’s team at the Thomas and Uber Cup badminton tournament starting on Sunday. Indian women had reached the quarterfinal for the first time at the 2010 Uber […]

With two back-to-back bronze medals in world championships adorning her list of achievements, Rio-bound Indian shuttler PV Sindhu says she will consider it a bigger feat if she could climb the podium on debut during the Olympic Games in August. “It’s much more than world championships. The ultimate goal for anyone is to get a medal in the Olympics where […]

Olympic-bound men’s singles shuttler K Srikanth of India slipped a place to be ranked World No. 12 in the latest BWF rankings issued on Thursday. 2010 Commonwealth Games champion duo of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa, who made the cut for their second Olympics, rose one rung to be World No. 14 in women’s doubles. Manu Attri and B Sumeeth […]