P V Sindhu, advanced to the knockout stage of the Women’s Singles at Dubai Super Series Final badminton tournament with two consecutive wins. However, fourth ranked Kidambi Srikanth crashed out of the Men’s Singles by suffering his second consecutive defeat. At Dubai last night, Olympic silver medallist Sindhu took just 36 minutes to outplay Sayaka Sato of Japan 21-13 21-12 …
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Saina Nehwal and H.S. Prannoy will look to enhance their chances of qualifying for the Dubai Super Series Finals. Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy will look to enhance their chances of qualifying for the Dubai Superseries Finals. They have a good performance at the $700,000 China Open Superseries Premier in Fuzhou on Tuesday. Interestingly, both Saina and Prannoy are ranked …
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Over the past two decades, badminton has been the most popular sport in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and some European nations. Countries south-east of India, including China, have won the world’s largest badminton tournaments. However, in the last four to five years, this barrier has been broken. Srikanth became the only Indian to have won four Super Series titles in a …
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Saina Nehwal beats Olympic silver medallist and World No.2 PV Sindhu in a final to win third women’s singles national. The scoreline says it all. It was an excellent display of badminton skills by both the players and it was Saina who held her nerve in the end to emerge victorious at 21-17, 27-25. Although it was a 2-0 win …
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It was only a week ago that the two had faced each other. It was the semi-final round of the French Open Super Series where Srikanth had bounced back from a set down to defeat Prannoy 14-21, 21-19, 21-18. Kidambi Srikanth and giant-killer H S Prannoy will clash in the men’s singles final at the 82nd Senior Badminton National championship …
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Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy, all made it to the semi-finals of the National Badminton Titles on Monday. The other men’s singles semi-last will be amongst Prannoy and Subhankar Dey. While Prannoy edged past Parupalli Kashyap 22-20, 21-19 out of 39 minutes. Subhankar dazed B Sai Praneeth originating from an amusement down to win the match …
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PV Sindhu and Lin Dan teamed up to beat Saina Nehwal and Lee Chong Wei, 9-8 in a close encounter in an exhibition mixed doubles match. Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu joined to beat Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei 5-4 in a doubles exhibition game. The initiative was first launched in 2015 in an attempt to increase awareness of …
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Srikanth Kidambi has now a series of firsts to his name after a superlative show in the European swing. Indian ace shuttler Srikanth Kidmabi has risen to the zenith of his career. He established himself as world number 2 in the latest BWF men’s singles ratings. After his grand French Open win, the 24-year-old became the first Indian. He is …
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In men’s doubles, Satwiksairaj and Chiragdished out another superb performance. They shocked the 2016 European champions Conrad-Petersen and Kolding 22-20 12-21 21-19 to reach the quarterfinals. Paris is one of Sindhu’s favourite venues. She digs the crepes and loves the stores here. But after her maiden Korean crown this year, she is keen on scoring another in Europe. Sindhu’s not …
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PV Sindhu beat Chen Yufei of China in straight games to storm into the women’s singles semi-final of the French-Super-Series. She washed off Chinese Chen Yufei 21-14, 21-14 in 41 minutes. Sindhu plays a game of immense bullying power and break-neck speed. Chen has answers to posers thrown at her, she’s quite mature for someone exiting her teens. Sindhu was …
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