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Bhagat, Joshi to lead India challenge at Dubai Para Badminton International

Reigning men's and women's world champions Pramod Bhagat and Manasi Joshi will spearhead India's challenge at the third Dubai Para Badminton International Championships

Saina Nehwal enters semifinals of Orleans Masters

Indian ace Saina Nehwal eked out a thrilling three-game win over USA's Iris Wang to advance to the women's singles semifinals of the Orleans Masters badminton tournament here on Friday.

Orleans Masters: Doubles pair of Ashwini-Sikki reach semis

Indian women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy advanced to the semi-finals of the ongoing Orleans Masters on Friday.Ponnappa and Ready outclassed England's pair of Chloe Birch and Lauren Smith 21-14, 21-18 in the quarter-finals clash that lasted for 41 minutes.Indian men's doubles pair of Krishna Prashad Garaga and Vishnu Vardhan Goud Panjala stormed into the semi-finals after defeating the local pair of Christo Popov and Toma Junior Popov in a three-game intense clash.The Indian duo came out triumphant despite the French pair staging a comeback in the second game. They won the match by 21-17, 10-21, 22-20 in an encounter that was completed in one hour and three minutes.Later in the day, Kidambi Srikanth and Ira Sharma will compete in their respective quarter-final games. Srikanth defeated Malaysia's Cheam June Wei in straight games in the third-round that lasted for 46 minutes. Despite facing a tough fight in both the games, Srikanth got better of his opponent and .

Orleans Masters: Saina Nehwal, Ira reach singles quarterfinals

Saina Nehwal beat France's Marie Batomene 18-21, 21-15, 21-10 to reach the women's singles quarterfinals of the Orleans Masters Super 1000 tournament on Thursday.

Lakshya Sen crashes out after Ashwini-Sikki pair's loss in quarters

Indian ace Lakshya Sen crashed out of the All England Open Championships quarterfinals after losing to Mark Caljouw of the Netherlands 17-21 21-16 17-21 here on Friday. The match, which lasted 55 minutes, saw the end of Indian challenge in men's singles. The women's doubles pairing of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy also bowed out of the tournament following their defeat in straight games to Netherlands' Selena Piek and Cheryl Seinen in the quarterfinals. The world number 30 Indian pairing went down 22-24 12-21 to 24th-ranked duo of Selena and Cheryl in 39 minutes. Ashwini and Sikki had defeated 13th ranked duo of Bulgarian sisters Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva 21-17 21-10 in just 33 minutes in the second-round match on Thursday night. World number 10 men's doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded sixth, had crashed out of the event after losing 16-21 21-11 17-21 to Denmark's Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in the second round. It was t

All England: Lakshya enters quarterfinals, Prannoy loses in second round

Young Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen progressed to his maiden quarterfinals at the prestigious All England Championships but it was curtains for compatriot HS Prannoy after he went down in straight games

Sindhu wins; Srikanth, Kashyap knocked out of men's singles in All England

World champion P V Sindhu made an impressive start at the All England Badminton Championships but compatriots Kidambi Srikanth and Parupalli Kashyap suffered early exits

All England Open: All Indian badminton players cleared to play

All Indian badminton players have been cleared to compete at the All England Open Championships, starting Wednesday, after results of their second Covid RT-PCR test on Wednesday came negative

Swiss Open: Praneeth, Jayaram, Satwik-Ashwini lose in quarters

Olympic hopeful B Sai Praneeth suffered a straight game loss to Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia in the quarterfinals as Indian shuttlers had a dismal outing at the Swiss Open here on Friday. Praneeth, who finished runner-up in the last edition, lost 14-21 17-21 to Jia in 45 minutes to bow out of the tournament. Ajay Jayaram's campaign ended after a demoralising 9-21 6-21 loss to eighth seeded Thai Kunlavut Vitidsarn in another last eight men's singles match. Earlier, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa fought hard before going down 17-21 21-16 8-21 to fifth seeds Tan Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing of Malaysia in quarterfinals of the mixed doubles competition. Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu will play her women's singles quarterfinals later on Friday.

Swiss Open: Sindhu, Srikanth, 2 others enter qtr, double delight for Satwik

P V Sindhu and former champion Kidambi Srikanth advanced to the quarterfinals of the singles competition along with two other Indians at the Swiss Open badminton tournament here on Thursday.

PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth through to Round of 16 in Swiss Open Super 300

The second-seeded Sindhu will next face Iris Wang of the USA in her Round of 16 match on Thursday

Swiss Open: India's K Srikanth, Sourabh through, HS Prannoy out

India's Kidambi Srikanth and Sourabh Verma on Wednesday progressed to the second round of the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton tournament here while H.S. Prannoy bowed out

Indian shuttlers Varun, Malvika win Uganda International titles

Indian shuttlers Varun Kapur and Malvika Bansod registered hard-fought wins to clinch the men's and women's singles titles respectively at the 2021 Uganda International in Kampala

Sindhu, Srikanth lose their opening matches in World Tour Finals

Star Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth fought their hearts out before suffering close defeats in their respective group 'B' openers at the USD 1.5 million HSBC BWF World Tour Finals

PV Sindhu, K Srikanth make impressive starts at Thailand Open

Sameer Verma shocked world no 10 Lee Zii Jia as Indian shuttlers made impressive starts at the Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 tournament here on Tuesday

Thaliand Open: Saina, Srikanth progress, Kashyap retires midway

Star India shuttler Saina Nehwal and former world number one Kidambi Srikanth entered the second rounds of their respective events but Parupalli Kashyap made an early exit from the Thailand Open

Saina, Prannoy test positive for Covid-19, withdraw from Thailand Open

Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy have withdrawn from the Thailand Open after testing positive for Covid-19

Indian badminton players start training in Thailand after testing negative

Indian badminton players, who will play three back-to-back tournaments here, started training on Wednesday after testing negative for Covid-19.

Kashyap, Prannoy among four shuttlers test positive for coronavirus

According to a source in the Sports Authority of India (SAI), the three shuttlers - Kashyap, Prannoy and Chopra - recently attended Guru Sai Dutt's wedding which took place on November 25 in Hyderabad

Organisers postpone sixth edition of Premier Badminton League amid Covid-19

The prize money in the league is among the highest for badminton tournaments around the world.