Category: Badminton

Ace Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy made winning starts to their campaigns in the opening round of the Denmark Open Super Series Premier on Wednesday. Saina beat Olympic gold medallist and former world No. 1 Carolina Marin of Spain 22-20, 21-18 in a hard-fought contest in the women’s singles first round. Srikanth beat compatriot Subhankar Dey […]

Top Indian men’s shuttlers made a killing with HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth emerging as the most expensive buys at the Premier Badminton League players’ auction. While Prannoy was picked up by Ahmedabad Smash Masters for Rs 62 lakh, Awadhe Warriors had to shell out Rs 56.1 lakh to get the services of Srikanth. Emerging star Sameer Verma (Mumbai Rockets; […]

Shuttler PV Sindhu was on Monday nominated for the prestigious Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian award. The Indian ace’s career graph has been on an upward curve since last year, when she became the first Indian to win a silver medal at the Olympic Games. In March 2015, Sindhu became the youngest recipient of the Padma Shri. Following her […]

Star India shuttler P V Sindhu on Thursday jumped two places to second spot in the Badminton World Federation women’s singles rankings, riding on her Korea Open Super Series title on Sunday. This is the second time in her career that Sindhu, the Olympics silver medallist, occupied the second spot. She was at the same second rank on April 6 […]

Olympics medallists P V Sindhu and Saina Nehwal crashed out of the $325,000 Japan Open Super Series after suffering straight-game defeats in second round in Tokyo on Thursday. Playing local favourite and world champion Nozomi Okuhara for the third consecutive time, Sindhu could not bring to the fore her best game and committed too many errors to go down 18-21 […]

After Korea Open Super Series badminton tournament, Olympic and World Championships silver-medallist P.V. Sindhu will aim to continue her rich vein of form when she heads into the Japan Open. Sindhu, seeded fourth in the tournament, will have to be at her best to get past world No. 19 Minatsu Mitani in the opening round of the women’s singles event […]