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India's top seeded Tanvi Sharma produced a near-perfect match against China's Liu Si Ya to storm into the final of the BWF World Junior Champions, in Guwahati, on Saturday.
India's top women's shuttler stormed into the women's singles badminton quarter-finals, shocking Li Li of Singapore.
Tanvi Sharma's bid to script history by winning a gold medal at the BWF World Junior Championships ended in heartbreak as she lost in straight games to Thailand's Anyapat Phichitpreechasak
The Indian national champion beat Salket Polsana of Thailand in the final.
Anup Sridhar won the men's singles title in the National Badminton championships.
Tanvi becomes first Indian female in 17 years to secure world junior medal, Hooda misses out
The Indian Olympic Association's Executive Council agreed to set up a panel to tackle doping after India's poor record was flagged by the IOC during a national delegation's visit to push for the 2036 Olympic bid.
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The Mission Olympic Cell is also considering higher incentives for retired Olympians and world-class players who want to take up coaching, in an effort to retain top talent within India.
The former world junior number one thus joined fellow Indians Aparna Popat (1996), Saina Nehwal (2006) and Siril Verma (2015) in winning a silver medal at the prestigious tournament.
On Sunday, Aamir Khan and Deepika Padukone played a doubles badminton match against each other.
Saina Nehwal has become a strong medal prospect at the upcoming London Olympics after her dominating performanmce over the formidable Chinese players at the Indonesian Open, asserts nine-time national badminton champion and two-time Olympian Aparna Popat.
Images from Day 11 of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.
The national women's champion is suffering from acute positional vertigo, which relates to giddiness.
Aparna Popat went down to fourth seed Jie Yao of Netherlands 4-11, 2-11 in just 18 minutes.
The Indian ace upset eighth seed Petya Nedeltcheva of Bulgaria in the Swiss Open badminton tournament.
But Pullela Gopichand, Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta were shown.
Both entered the pre-quarter-finals in the women's individual badminton event.
Aparna Popat gave a tough fight to Rebecca Bellingam before losing 11-9, 8-11, 9-11 to crash out of the World Badminton Championships
Outgoing coach Vimal Kumar criticized the BAI for giving preference to youngsters at the expense of experience.
Chetan Anand beat Hendra Wijaya of Singapore to enter the semi-finals of the men's singles badminton event at the Commonwealth Games.
Popat was taken the distance by B R Meenakshi while Saina Nehwal easily beat Trupti Murgunde in the semi-finals of the Senior National badminton championships.
While Abhinn Shyam Gupta runs into a top-ranked\n\nplayer in the opening round of the Olympics.
The 25-year-old will join Aparna Popat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta in the badminton event at Athens.
The former national champion won a berth following the withdrawal of players in the qualification list.
In a move to conserve herself for big events, Aparna Popat had decided to miss the tournaments in Jakarta and Malaysia.
The national women's champion has been top seeded for the Asian Satellite Badminton Championship in Jaipur..
They went down to Japan's Shoji Sato and Huawien Xu of France respectively at the German Open badminton tournament.
National women's champion Aparna Popat moved into the second round of the tournament.
The Indian ace proved too good for Michelle Edwards in her opening match in the badminton competition.
The Indian ace will meet Michelle Edwards of South Africa in the first round of the women's singles badminton on Saturday.
India rallied to beat Bulgaria 3-2 in the Sudirman Cup.
Aparna Popat, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar are unfancied in the badminton competition at Athens but hope to make a mark with a spirited showing.
15-year-old Saina Nehwal created a sensation when she upset eight-time national champion Aparna Popat in the final of the Asian Satellite Championship.
They won the men's and women's singles crowns in the National badminton championships.
They won the men's and women's team titles in the 58th Inter-State National badminton championships.
The 26-year-old said she will be concentrating on her weak points in the three months training prior to the Athens Olympics in August.
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