Lakshya Sen and Saina Nehwal made impressive starts at the Indonesia Masters Super 500 badminton tournament, advancing to the second round of men's and women's singles respectively with contrasting victories in Jakarta on Wednesday.
World No 8 Sen zoomed to an early 5-1 lead before dashing to 11-3 at the mid-game break. He kept moving ahead as Prannoy's game crumbled.
India's women shuttlers assured themselves of a maiden Badminton Asia Team Championships medal by cruising to a 3-0 win over Hong Kong in the quarter-finals.
The men's team will next face Hong Kong on Thursday.
Fighter's distressing lack of thrills and sizzle reduces the exercise to an excuse for tedious amounts of Pakistan bashing, observes Sukanya Verma.
Sindhu had beaten world number 18 Zhang in the Malaysian Open quarter-finals in May this year but the Chinese avenged that defeat and also made the lifetime win-loss record to 3-2 against the Indian.
'The boys did it. First-ever Thomas Cup for India.'
Battling an inconsistent form, double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu on Tuesday slipped five places to world number 17 in the latest BWF world rankings.
Jacqueline starts the New Year by visiting the Vaishnodevi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty achieved a career-best world number three
Satwik and Chirag jumped one spot in the latest BWF rankings to regain the fifth place.
Many believe the Thomas Cup victory can do for badminton what the 1983 World Cup triumph did for cricket in India.
Defending champion Lakshya Sen looked in fine fettle as he registered a straight-game win over compatriot H S Prannoy to make a winning start to his title defence at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Super 750 badminton tournament, in Delhi, on Tuesday.
PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen notched up contrasting wins to advance to the semifinals of the Canada Open
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Friday, September 29.
As Kidambi Srikanth lost his second round match, India's campaign ended at the Singapore Open.
Lakshya Sen sails into third round of World Championships
A summary of Indian athletes' showing on the concluding day of the Commonwealth Games.
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Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Vietnam Open: Simran-Ritika in quarters.
P V Sindhu, H S Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth booked their places in the quarter-finals of the Malaysia Masters Super 500 tournament.
Lakshya Sen dished out a badminton masterpiece to notch up his second BWF Super 500 title with a straight-game win over Li Shi Feng of China in the final.
Sumit got off to a good start, courtesy his agility while dodging the opponent and powerful attacking technique that gave him the upper hand in the first two rounds.
Shanaya Kapoor is Maheep and Sanjay Kapoor's daughter.
Bollywood stars made a splash this Holi, celebrating with their adorable kids and sharing pictures on social media.
On November 30, President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sports and Adventure Awards 2022.
HS Prannoy and PV Sindhu is set to lead India's charge at the upcoming Sudirman Cup.
Pusarla V Sindhu proved too good for Canada's Michelle Li in the women's singles badminton final to win her maiden Commonwealth Games gold medal, in Birmingham, on Monday.
Nikhat Zareen secured a Paris Olympics berth and assured herself of a medal as she cantered to the 50kg semi-finals of the Asian Games.
Down 0-2, the Indians showed great fighting spirit as the doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and Chirag Shetty and PV Sindhu levelled the scores after reverses in the first two matches.
Indian Mithun Manjunath stunned fourth seed and world number seven Kean Yew Loh of Singapore in the opening round while PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth secured straight-game wins.
'Until April 2024, we have the qualification period so until that we might push for more tournaments but the plan is to pick and choose after you qualify and then gradually peaking before the Olympics.'
While Sharath is the lone Khel Ratna award recipient, a total of 25 athletes including shuttlers Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy, woman boxer Nikhat Zareen, athletes Eldhose Paul, Avinash Sable have been nominated for the Arjuna Award this year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hailed Kidambi Srikanth's silver medal win in the World Badminton Championships, saying it will inspire several sportspersons and further interest in badminton.
I am overwhelmed and humbled with all the love and support I have received from so many fans in India and all over the world and just wanted to say a big 'Thank You' to everyone," said the 20-year-old from Almora.
Disappointed not to get gold but bronze means a lot: Prannoy
Prannoy reached the World Championships on previous two occassions.
Glimpses of the stars Pradeep Bandekar glimpsed on Wednesday.
The Indian duo won 21-15, 21-13.
