Andhra Pradesh's J B S Vidyadhar beat the national champion in the semi-finals of the Senior ranking badminton tournament.
Victory over the defending champion earned Bhatt a meeting with top seed Chetan Anand in the men's final of the National Badminton Championships.\n\nBadminton Championships.
But former All England champion Pullela Gopichand, Nikhil Kanetkar and Chetan Anand bowed out of the German Open.\n
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The former national champion won a berth following the withdrawal of players in the qualification list.
Abhinn Shyam Gupta went down to Neils Christian Kaldau of Denmark in the first round of the Thailand Open Badminton Championship.
The Indian ace was beaten by former world champion and sixth seed Peter Gade of Denmark in the second round of the badminton singles.
But Pullela Gopichand, Anup Sridhar, Arvind Bhat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta were shown.
The ace shuttler's name was inadvertently omitted from the list issued by the Press Information Bureau.
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Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gupta begin their campaign in the men's badminton tournament.
The Indian ace was shocked by Chen Shih Hao of Chinese Taipei in the Asian 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.
Aparna Popat entered the main draw after beating Commonwealth Games champion Li Li of Singapore.
But former national champions Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Chetan Anand crashed out in the first round.
Chetan Anand and Abhinn Shyam Gupta won their respective matches with ease to enter the semis of the badminton individual event.
Both romped into the second round in the US $10,000 Asian Satellite badminton championship.
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.
B R Meenakshi and Shruti Kurien will contest the women's final in the NSCI badminton championships.\n\n
But national champion Chetan Anand fell by the wayside in the the Asian Badminton Championships.
Third seed B S Vidyadhar was given a fright by Joy T Anthony of Kerala before making the second round in the NSCI badminton tournament.
Chetan Anand, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Kanetkar advanced to the second round of the All England Open Badminton tournament.
The victory gave the unheralded Andhra shuttler a berth in the third round of the men's singles in the Senior National Badminton Championships.\n\n
They won the men's and women's singles crowns in the National badminton championships.
JBS Vidyadhar Rao defeated top seed Abhinn Shyam Gupta to set up an All-India title clash with former All England Champion Pullela Gopichand in the USD 10,000 Asian Satellite Badminton championship.
They next face 7th seed Anders Boesen of Denmark and 15th seed Chunlai Bao of China respectively at the Hong Kong Open.
The chief coach of the Indian badminton team said it could be considered a good achievement if Aparna Popat, Nikhil Kanetkar and Abhinn Shyam Gulta make the last eight stage.
However, Chetan Anand and Abhinn Shyam Gupta made it to the second round in the Malaysian Open.
Jwalla Gutta and Shruti Kurian were the lone Indians to taste success on the opening day of the World badminton championships.
National champion Abhinn Shyam Gupta meets third seed Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia in the first round.
Chetan Anand, Nikhil Kanetkar, Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Aparna Popat made an exit for the All England Badminton Championships.
India beat England 3-2 to win the Indo-British Charity Cup in the badminton tourney held at the Birmingham Sports Centre.
The giants of Indian badminton were joined by Utsav Misra and Arvind Bhat in the semis in the Syed Modi badminton tournament.
The Indian national champion lost to Jang Young Soo of Korea in at the German Open.
Chetan Anand upset former champion Ong Ewe Hock in the second round before losing in the next.
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