The case for a merit-based sporting system has long grated Indian sports' seniority-based system; Nehwal isn't the first big Indian athlete to feel this pinch and won't be the last
P V Sindhu suffered her fourth successive defeat to the young An Seyoung to sign off her women's singles campaign at the semifinal stage
World championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen staved off a spirited challenge from local hope Choi Ji Hoon to enter the men's singles second round of the Korea Open Super 500 badminton tournament
Kidambi Srikanth, the World Championships silver medallist, squandered an opening game advantage to go down 21-18 7-21 13-21 to Asian Games champion Christie of Indonesia
Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal exited the Swiss Open after losing her women's singles second round to lower-ranked Kisona Selvaduray of Malaysia.
In the women's singles, Ashmita Chaliha put up a tough fight before going down 18-21 20-22 to eighth seeded Scot Kirsty Gilmour in the second round.
G Sathiyan and Manika Batra settled for the silver, capitulating in the final of the mixed doubles against the top-seeded Chinese Taipei pair of Lin Yun-Ju and Cheng I-Ching.
The 20-year-old from Uttarakhand, who became only the fifth Indian ever to reach the summit clash of All England Championships, improved two places to become world number 9 with 74,786 points
World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen finished as the runner-up at 2022 All England Open Badminton Championships after losing to world number one Viktor Axelsen in the men's singles final
Sen has been in sensational form in the last six months as he secured his maiden Super 500 title at India Open in January and then claimed a runner-up finish at the German Open last week
World no 7 Sindhu, however, made an early exit after going down 19-21 21-16 17-21 to left-handed Takahashi, ranked 13th, in an hour and six minutes second round match
Ace Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Saina Nehwal began their All England Championships campaign with easy straight-game wins over their respective opponents in the women's singles here on Wednesday.
The first Indian man to win silver at the BWF World Championships, Srikanth has seen dizzying heights and deep lows. He chooses to be unperturbed by the ebb and flow of life, writes Vaibhav Raghunanda
Saina Nehwal will be the star attraction in Odisha Open Super 100, the state's first ever international tournament under Badminton World Federation
India shuttler PV Sindhu on Sunday won the women's singles title at the Syed Modi International tournament.At the Babu Banarasi Indoor Stadium, top-seed Sindhu defeated Malvika Bansod 21-13, 21-16 in the summit clash that lasted for 35 minutes.The 26-year-old Sindhu brought her A-game to the court and she won the first game quite comprehensively.From there on, Sindhu carried on with the momentum and she wrapped up the match in straight sets.Earlier, the men's singles final of the Syed Modi India International 2022 was declared a 'No Match', Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed on Sunday.The men's singles final was slated to be contested between Arnaud Merkle and Lucas Claerbout."BWF can confirm one of the finalists tested positive for COVID-19 this morning," stated an official statement.
World championship bronze medallist Lakshya Sen entered his maiden World Tour Super 500 summit clash on Saturday with a win over Malaysia's Ng Tze Yong at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open, here.
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu stormed into the semi-finals of the ongoing India Open 2022, which is part of the BWF World Tour tournament series, at the KD Jadhav stadium on Friday.
Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed that seven players have been withdrawn from the ongoing India Open 2022 after testing positive for Covid-19.
Top shuttler B Sai Praneeth and doubles player Dhruv Rawat have already pulled out after testing positive in the pre-departure testing
Star Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will look to carry the momentum from last season and make winning starts to the new year when they begin their campaign at the India Open.