New Delhi: London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal retained her second position in the world rankings despite making the quarterfinal exit at the Thailand Open in the women's singles.
Rising teen sensation, P V Sindhu has also maintained her 11th position and is just a step short of breaking into the Top-10 for the first time in her career.
Meanwhile, Mumbai's Ajay Jayaram jumped three places to 25 while RMV Gurusaidutt gained two places to be placed at 23 in the men's singles.
London Olympics quarterfinalist, Parupalli Kashyap, who had yesterday crashed out of the Indonesian Super Series Premier after losing his campaign opener, retained his No.10 position. ...
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06:35 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu retained their women's singles rankings in the list released by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Thursday. Saina is currently at No. 2 while Sindhu, with her win in Malaysia last week, stayed put at 13th. Parupalli Kashyap is the highest ranked Indian male shuttler at World No. 11 while RMV Gurusaidutt pipped Ajay Jayaram to be the second best Indian...
04:17 PM, May 09, 2013
Hyderabad: Touted as India's next badminton sensation after Saina Nehwal, young PV Sindhu feels the Chinese shuttlers, who have been dominating the international arena for quite some time now, are not unbeatable. "The Chinese players are really very good. They are top players, but it is not that they are unbeatable. Whoever plays well on a given day, that player wins," Sindhu, who won the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold this...
02:35 PM, May 07, 2013
The Hyderabadi girl won her maiden Grand Prix Gold title beating Singaporean fifth seed Juan Gu in the singles final of the Malaysia Open badminton last week. ...
12:01 PM, May 07, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Having clinched her maiden Grand Prix Gold title in Malaysia, India's rising shuttler P V Sindhu expressed her gratitude to the national coach Pullela Gopichand and the Badminton Association of India. Sindhu said that the support and contribution of her coach and the association enabled her to clinch her first Grand Prix Gold title. "This is a dream come true for me. I would like to thank the...
08:39 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Badminton Association of India (BAI) president Akhilesh Das Gupta congratulated P.V. Sindhu for clinching her maiden Grand Prix Gold title at the $120,000 Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur Saturday. The 17-year-old Sindhu, ranked 13th in the world, lived up to her top billing beating Singaporean Juan Gu in the women's singles final. The Indian shuttler won 21-17, 17-21, 21-19 in one hour and 11 minutes at the Juara...
07:41 PM, May 04, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: India's PV Sindhu lived up to her top billing by winning her maiden Grand Prix Gold title beating Singaporean fifth seed Juan Gu in the women's singles final of the $120,000 Malaysia Open badminton here Saturday. The Hyderabadi World No.13 won 21-17, 17-21, 21-19 in one hour and 11 minutes at the Juara Indoor Stadium to increase her head-to-head to 2-1 against Gu. An excited Sindhu said that...
03:51 PM, May 04, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Indian shuttler PV Sindhu will be vying for her maiden level three title at the $120,000 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold where she is seeded no.1 in women's singles. The tournament, which kicks off here at the SUKPA Indoor Stadium on Tuesday, will see the 17-year-old Sindhu take on world no.48 Jiayuan Chen of Singapore in the first round in their first ever encounter. Her first real challenge...
03:12 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Seeing his protege Saina Nehwal departing early from India Open, national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand was expectedly sad but that feeling was more or less neutralised when he witnessed the gritty performances of young players such as PV Sindhu. "We have had a whole lot of players emerging from this tournament. I am a little disappointed with Saina losing early but looking at the entire lot, it is...
02:27 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Eighth seed PV Sindhu of India dispatched Yui Hashimoto of Japan 21-16, 21-16 to enter the semi-finals of India Open for the first time here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Friday. The Indian took 47 minutes to beat her Japanese opponent who had ousted the top seed Saina Nehwal a day earlier. Sindhu took the first game in just under 21 minutes leading throughout, with the...
07:17 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: His first-round ouster from the India Open singles event notwithstanding, London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap moved up a place to career-best sixth in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings on Thursday. Kashyap scaled his career-best singles ranking a day after losing his first-round match at the India Open Super Series to former world number 1 Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia. Seventeen-year-old P V Sindhu also reached her career-best ranking...
05:02 PM, Apr 25, 2013
World number two woman shuttler Saina Nehwal is the top seed at the Yonex Sunrise India Open, and in the absence of Chinese players, she is eager to put her best foot forward at the BWF Super Series tournament to be held in Delhi from April 23 to 28. ...
08:20 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: World number two woman shuttler Saina Nehwal is the top seed at the Yonex Sunrise India Open, and in the absence of Chinese players, she is eager to put her best foot forward trying to emulate her 2010 success at the BWF Super Series tournament to be held in Delhi from April 23 to 28. Talking at the pre-tournament press conference, Saina sounded upbeat ahead of the tournament...
04:02 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Taipei: India's campaign at the Badminton Asia Championships came to an end here on Friday after rising shuttler P.V. Sindhu lost in the women's singles quarter-finals to Japanese seventh seed Eriko Hirose in three games. After beating former World No.1 Shixian Wang in the previous round on Thursday at the Taipei Arena, the 17-year-old Indian looked in top form in the first two games but ran out of steam by...
12:59 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: World No.2 Saina Nehwal retained her place in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) women's singles rankings released on Thursday. City-mate P.V. Sindhu currently playing in the Badminton Asia Championships in Taipei also kept her 16th place. London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap, Mumbai's Ajay Jayaram and Sourabh Verma also retained their positions in the men's singles rankings. While Kashyap is at a career-best No.7, Jayaram and Verma are...
04:18 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: London Olympics quarter-finalist Parupalli Kashyap jumped to a career-best ranking of World No.7 in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday. The Hyderabadi jumped a place, overtaking Chinese Chen Jin, to be in the top-7 in the men's singles rankings while Mumbai's Ajay Jayaram retained his ranking of 30th. In the women's singles, Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal also kept her No.2 position behind Olympic champion...
04:29 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Defending champion Saina Nehwal remained the lone bright spot for India defeating Petya Nedelcheva 21-15, 21-10. ...
01:31 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Saina, who turns 23 on March 17, was overtaken by World Champion Yihan Wang in the women's singles rankings. ...
05:18 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Sindhu and Gurusaidutt notched up straight-game victories to clinch the titles in the Vankina Anjani Devi Memorial tournament. ...
01:24 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Nehwal defeated Singapore's Gu Juan 21-12 21-15 and will take on Hong Kong's Pui Yin YIP in the second round. ...
03:48 PM, Jan 16, 2013
