Chetan Anand and Arvind Bhat set up a title clash against each other after notching contrasting wins in the men's singles semi-finals of the Bitburger Open in Germany on Saturday. In the women's singles, Aditi Mutatkar stunned second seed Juliane Schenk 21-14, 21-16 to enter the final, where she will take on Indonesia's Maria Febe Kusumastuti.
Wild card entrant P Kashyap notched up an easy win over Iranian Ali Shahhosseini to keep the tri-colour fluttering as India had a mixed day in the World Badminton Championship at the Gachibowli stadium in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Indians made a solid start to their campaign in the Singapore Open badminton tournament, the trio of Saina Nehwal, Arvind Bhat and Anup Sridhar winning their qualifying openers of the Super Series event.
Saina Nehwal and Sayali Gokhale gave India a rousing start at the Philippines Open badminton championship
India's challenge in the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Super Series came to an end on Friday after both Arvind Bhat and Saina Nehwal bowed out in the quarter-finals.
India whitewashed New Zealand 3-0 to enter the quarterfinals of the men's team championship in the Thomas Cup
But Pullela Gopichand, Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta were shown.
Both went down tamely in the first round of the Malaysian Open badminton championships.
The Indian ace was shocked by Chen Shih Hao of Chinese Taipei in the Asian Badminton championships.
Indian duo of Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar brought home the doubles honours.
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.
Pullela Gopichand only managed to win five points from the two games.
However, Anup Sridhar and Arvind Bhat went through the qualifying round at Birmingham on Tuesday.
The giants of Indian badminton were joined by Utsav Misra and Arvind Bhat in the semis in the Syed Modi badminton tournament.
Kanetkar thrashed Arnd Vetters of Germany 15-5, 15-0.
Top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, P V Sindhu, K Srikanth and Parupalli Kashyap reached the second round of Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament after scoring easy victories in Lucknow.
The Badminton Association of India will investigate doubles player Jwala Gutta's alleged role in provoking some players of her Indian Badminton League (IBL) team Krrish Delhi Smashers against playing a match versus Banga Beats.
Former national champion Arvind Bhat entered the $120,000 German Open Grand Prix Gold finals after registering a thrilling three-game victory over Chinese Taipei's Tien Chen Chou in the men's singles in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu marched into the women's quarter-finals but all the top four seeds, including defending champion P Kashyap, crashed out of the men's event in the Syed Modi International India Grand Prix in Lucknow.
Anand Pawar, ranked 43rd in the world and a member of the Indian Sudirman Cup team, became the latest Indian player to slam the Indian Badminton League after he went unsold at the IBL players' auction while other lower-ranked Indian players were snapped up by the six franchises.
Defending champion Saina Nehwal and World number five Kidambi Srikanth were among the nine Indian shuttlers who entered the quarter-finals of the singles events at the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament in Lucknow.
The Badminton Association of India's disciplinary committee has recommended a life ban on top Indian doubles shuttler Jwala Gutta for trying to stop some players of her franchise Krrish Delhi Smashers from playing a match against Banga Beats in the Indian Badminton League.
The first shuttle is yet to be struck but the discontent with the Indian Badminton League is only rising with men's doubles specialists Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas hinting at a pullout, claiming that their base prices too were slashed without informing them.
Saina Nehwal's wish to be in her home team came true as Hyderabad Hotshots bought the Indian star for USD 120,000 but world number one Lee Chong Wei proved to be the costliest, going to Mumbai Masters for USD 135,000 in the inaugural Indian Badminton League's players auction on Monday.
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