It was a rare sight to witness badminton legends Prakash Padukone and Morten Frost get back on the court to relive their glory days with India's chess wizard Viswanathan Anand for company.
Sindhu is now the joint highest medal-winner in women's singles in the World Championships history with former Olympic champion Zhang Ning of China, who won an identical 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze between 2001 and 2007.
Former champion Taufik Hidayat halted Danish youngster Jan O Jorgensen's giant-killing run 21-19, 21-19 to enter the semi-finals of the World Badminton Championships on Friday. In the women's draw, world number one Zhou Mi of Hong Kong was toppled 21-15, 21-18 by Chinese fifth seed Xie Xingfang.
'I didn't know I had a major injury. The belief of my parents and coach helped me get back'
Saina Nehwal and the mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju were the first Indians to enter the quarter-finals in the World Badminton Championships, even though it was curtains for Chetan Anand in the men's singles, in Hyderabad, on Thursday.
The Swine flu scare has hit the World Badminton Championships and a Malaysian coach has been admitted to a local government hospital in Hyderabad after showing symptoms of the deadly disease. His identity is not yet known as the Malaysians have separate coaches for singles and doubles.
India failed to exploit the home advantage as barring ace shuttler Chetan Anand none could advance to the second round on the first day of the World Badminton Championship in Hyderabad on Monday.
Back on the court after a month, Saina Nehwal will battle it out against a tough field while the mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju will aim for a second title at the Japan Open Super Series.
Gearing up for her return after a month-long break, ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal said she has regained full fitness and would be at the top of her game during next week's Japan Open Super Series. Saina was down with chicken pox weeks before the World Badminton Championship last month but the Hyderabadi battled on to become the first Indian to reach the quarter-finals of the blue-ribbon event.
World Badminton Championships silver medallist Saina Nehwal feels her decision to shift base to Bangalore and train under Vimal Kumar turned out to be a masterstroke.
Denmark's Thomas Laybourne had once bade adiue to badminton after losing interest in the game but now being close to fulfiling his world championship title dream along with his mixed doubles partner Kamilla Rytter Juhl, the shuttler feels he had taken the right decision of returning back to the sport.
The Indian ace frittered away a 10-1 lead in the second game before going down 21-16, 21-19 to second seed Lin Wang in the quarter-finals.
The Indian mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju crashed out of the World Badminton Championships after a straight games defeat to defending champions and second seeds Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir of Indonesia in the quarter-finals in Hyderabad on Friday. The world No 8 Indian pair was beaten 16-21, 14-21 in just 27 minutes.
At 32, Peter Gade is obviously not young, but the Dane vows to defy his age and go full throttle against defending champion Lin Dan of China in a mouth-watering quarterfinal match of the World Badminton Championship in Hyderabad on Friday.
After breaking into the elite zone of top-10 players, ace shuttler Saina Nehwal became the first Indian woman shuttler to be named most promising player of the year by the Badminton World Federation.
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.
An 'upset' PV Sindhu says a historic gold medal at the World Badminton Championships slipped through her hands in the dying moments of the thrilling final against Nozomi Okuhara.
Indian badminton ace Anup Sridhar talks about his form and chances at the Beijing Olympics.
While Sangakkara advises the under-fire keeper-batsman to keep things simple
The defending champion needed only 38 minutes to pack off the Indian in the quarter-finals of the World Badminton Championships.
"It's the biggest win in my career so far and I'm happy it came in a big event like the world championships," said Sridhar.
Anup Sridhar and Saina Nehwal cruised into the singles second round but Shruti Kurian and Jwala Ghutta bowed out of women's doubles at the World Badminton Championships.
China won three titles and Indonesia two at the world badminton championships.
The Indian ace beat Muhd Hafiz B Hashim of Malaysia and stormed into the men's singles quarter-finals at the World Badminton Championships.
Chetan Anand and Trupti Murgunde bowed out after losing their first round singles matches at the World Badminton Championships at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
India whitewashed New Zealand 3-0 to enter the quarterfinals of the men's team championship in the Thomas Cup
Taufik Hidayat's hopes of retaining his world badminton title evaporated when he lost to China's Chen Hong.
The Indian pair beat Malaysia's Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama and Albertus Susanto in a second round match at the World Badminton Championships.
Saina Nehwal continued her rapid rise in world badminton as she gained 11 spots to reach a career best ranking of number 30.
Top seed and defending champion Lin Dan of China reached the final of the world badminton championships for the third year in succession on Saturday with a 21-12 22-20 victory over compatriot and fourth seed Bao Chunlai.
The Indian pair was trounced by China's Yawen Zhang and Yili Wie in the second round of women's doubles at the World Badminton Championships.
Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurian entered the last 16 after their top seeded opponents pulled out of the World Badminton Championship.
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
China moved closer to defending their titles in the Thomas and Uber Cups with easy quarter-finals victories.
Madhya Pradesh's Aditya Joshi has become the first male junior badminton player from India to be ranked world No 1. Harshal Dani is another Indian who, at No 8, figures in the top ten of the junior rankings.
Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia became the first player to hold the Olympic and World titles at the same time.
China win Sudirman Cup title\nChina thrashed Indonesia 3-0 to win the Sudirman Cup mixed team tournament, their third straight international team title.\n
With a ranking of 129, the Indian ace failed to get a direct entry.
Italy's renowned World Cup winner Alessandro Del Piero has called the Indian Super League football tournament an 'adventure' and said he was 'enthusiastic' about embarking on this new journey.
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