Kuala Lumpur: Badminton's world governing body (BWF) will create a separate commission to deal with match-fixing problems, Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen said after being elected president on Saturday. Denmark's 1996 Olympic men's singles gold medallist Hoyer Larsen beat Indonesian Justian Suhandinata to claim the role after an election at the BWF headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. The 47-year-old, the only European to win a badminton gold at the Olympics, will replace South...
03:59 PM, May 18, 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
New Delhi: The much awaited lucrative Indian Badminton League (IBL), which offers a prize purse of $1 million, will be held across six major Indian cities from Aug 14-31. The finals will be held in Mumbai Aug 31 while Hyderabad and Bangalore will get to host the semi-finals. New Delhi will host the grand opening ceremony of the IBL, featuring international and national star-cast, Aug 13, followed by the first...
10:26 PM, May 08, 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
Mumbai: Shuttlers will be allowed two challenges when badminton uses technology to rule on contentious decisions for the first time at next month's Indonesia Open, the governing body of the sport said. The system, featuring ultra-slow motion cameras, will allow players to review line calls and umpire overrules, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said in a statement. "Challenges must be made immediately after the shuttle has landed and the call...
02:33 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: 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
New Delhi: Top seed PV Sindhu stormed into the final of the women's singles event at the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament with a straight-game win over Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Sindhu needed just 34 minutes to get the better of her third-seeded opponent, 21-17 21-11 in the semi-final clash. The 17-year-old Indian shuttler, who was in a full flow against the Thai girl,...
07:58 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Top seed PV Sindhu advanced to the second round of the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament after recording a win over Singapore's Chena Jiayuan on a day that saw three Indians qualifying for the pre-quarterfinals of the men's singles event in Kuala Lumpur. Sindhu beat Jiayuan 21-13, 19-21, 21-13 in a match that lasted 47 minutes. Sindhu will meet Hong Kong's Cheung Ngan Yi in the quarter-finals...
08:09 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: It was a mixed day for the Indian shuttlers at the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament as RMV Gurusaidutt, K Srikanth and Sameer Verma won their respective first round matches while the others crashed out of the men's singles event in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The 11th seeded Gurusaidutt prevailed over Chao Huang of Singapore 21-19, 14-21, 21-17 in a battle that lasted 47 minutes. He would...
05:35 PM, Apr 30, 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: Falling in line with the government's Sports Code, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) has amended its constitution by fixing the term and the age limit of its office bearers. The sports ministry has asked the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the National Sports Federations (NSFs) to be on the same page by adopting the Sports Code ahead of next month's meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC)....
12:36 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: World number 1 shuttler Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia on Saturday said Indian players have improved immensely over the years and added that "never" had five players from the country qualified for the quarter-finals of the India Open badminton tournament. "Now the Indian players are playing well. You had five Indians in the men's quarter-finals here. Never before, right?," said Chong Wei. He applauded the national coach Pullela...
09:27 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: At 26, Anand Pawar has seen a lot of lows in his career and at the India Open 2013, the Mumbaikar had his moment recording career best showing at a Super Series reaching the semi-finals. It was by no means an easy draw for the Indian. He had to stave off challenges from world number 19 Takuma Ueda of Japan, third seed Yun Hu of Hong Kong and...
09:17 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: World No 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia beat Boonsak Ponsana of Thailand 21-11, 18-21, 21-8 to enter his third India Open men's singles final while Juliane Schenk went past Aprilla Yuswandari to book a place in the women's singles final here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Saturday. The two Indians in the fray, Anand Pawar and PV Sindhu, lost their respective semi-final matches much to...
08:14 PM, Apr 27, 2013
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