New Delhi: Defending champion Saina Nehwal reached her second consecutive final of the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold with a straight-game victory over Japan's Minatsu Mitani in the semi-finals in Basel, Switzerland. The Indian ace registered a 21-16 21-18 triumph over Mitani in 35 minutes to set up a summit clash with second seed Shixian Wang. The world number three Chinese beat eighth seed Inthanon Ratchanok of Thailand 21-17 21-15...
04:06 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: India ace Saina Nehwal will have to put behind her quarter-final finish at the All England Championships and gather herself quickly to defend her title at the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold, which starts with the qualifiers at Basel, Switzerland on Tuesday. World number four Saina will open her campaign against Sayaka Sato of Japan in the women's singles competition. The 21-year-old Indian has a 2-1 record against...
06:31 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: Indian shuttlers Arvind Bhat and Anand Pawar crossed the first-round hurdle but it was curtains for their compatriots P Kashyap and Ajay Jayaram in the men's singles competition of the German Open Grand Prix Gold in Mulheim an der Ruhr. Former national champion Arvind reached the second round after Scott Evans retired midway at 21-9, while Anand defeated Eetu Heino of Finland 21-12 21-16. However, Commonwealth Games bronze...
04:09 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Saina Nehwal's struggle for form summed up a disappointing year for Indian badminton, the rare high point of which was Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa's World Championships bronze medal. After a highly successful 2010, during which Saina won a hat-trick of Super Series titles besides the Commonwealth Games gold medal, 2011 turned out to be a disappointing one for the Indian as she could win only the Swiss Grand Prix...
12:48 PM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: Rising Indian shuttler Sourabh Varma cracked the top 50 in the latest world badminton rankings on Thursday, following his superb performance at the Syed Modi Grand Prix gold tournament last week. Sourabh, who finished runner-up at the season-ending tournament, jumped 22 ranking places to be placed at the 50th position in the rankings released on Thursday. The 20-year-old from Madhya Pradesh had a dream run in the prestigious...
08:24 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Jwala Gutta and V Diju are the first from India to win a Grand Prix Gold title. ...
12:40 PM, Sep 02, 2009
World No 8 Saina will now meet Thai's Ratchanok Intanon in the 2nd round. ...
11:24 PM, Jun 24, 2009
Saina beat unseeded Malaysian Li Ya Lydia Cheah 21-8, 21-19 in theinals. ...
01:24 PM, Sep 14, 2008
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