Kuala Lumpur: India suffered a 0-5 thrashing at the hands of formidable China in their opening group match of the Sudirman Cup mixed team badminton championship here. Only P V Sindhu could offer a semblance of a fight in her 21-19, 16-21, 14-21 women's singles loss to Wang Yihan while the four other Indians were outclassed by the Chinese at the Putra Stadium. The Group A match began with the...
05:30 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: The newly formed Indian women's doubles team featuring Ashwini Ponnappa and Pradnya Gadre defeated England's pair of Lauren Smith and Gabrielle White 19-21, 22-20, 21-11 to enter the second round of India Open here on Wednesday. In another match, Jwala Gutta and Prajakta Sawant lost to Misato Aratama and Megumi Taruno of Japan 19-21, 10-21 to crash out of the event. Ponnappa and Gadre made some unforced errors...
03:49 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Noida: Ace Indian shuttler Jwala Gutta on Tuesday said she has no plans of going back to her old-time doubles partner Ashwini Ponnappa for now and will stick with Mumbai's Prajakta Sawant. Jwala and Ashwini last played together at the London Olympics after which the former took a sabbatical from the sport while Ashwini went on to partner Pradnya Gadre. "Currently I have no plans of changing any partner. For...
09:06 PM, Apr 23, 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
Saina notched up a three-game victory over Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand to reach the pre-quarterfinals. ...
01:41 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Sourabh prevailed over Brice Leverdez 22-20 23-21 in a 40-minute battle and will now take on Rajiv Ouseph, the top seed in the qualifiers. ...
10:33 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Jwala had taken a break after the London Olympics and for the last two months, has been working out to get back in shape for All England. ...
12:33 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Ashwini Ponnappa got off to a winning start when she won both her women's and mixed doubles first round matches at the German Open. ...
06:38 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Saina Nehwal's hard work over the years was rewarded by a perfectly-timed stroke of luck as she clinched a historic bronze medal in the London Olympics to cover new ground for Indian badminton in a mostly successful year. ...
04:38 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Odense: Mixed doubles shuttlers Ashwini Ponnappa and Tarun Kona bowed out of the Denmark Open Super Series Premier, losing in straight games in the first round here. The Indian duo lost to the unseeded Indonesian combo of Markis Kido and Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth 18-21, 15-21 in 28 minutes Tuesday in their first ever clash. Though the first game was a neck-and-neck encounter till 16-all, the World No.43 Indonesian pair surged...
12:31 PM, Oct 17, 2012
New Delhi: Shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa is still in disbelief over her early exit from the London Olympics and criticised the new round-robin format which according to her encouraged "match-fixing" at the Games. Despite winning two out of their three matches in Group B, Ponnappa and her partner Jwala Gutta failed to progress to the quarter-finals amid allegations of match-throwing on other teams. "The round-robin format was ridiculous. It brought about...
04:46 PM, Aug 09, 2012
CNN-IBN's experts analyse the badminton controversy and some of the results of the Olympics day five. ...
09:00 AM, Aug 02, 2012
The Indian badminton pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa's appeal was rejected while eight players were expelled in a fixing row at the London Olympics on Wednesday. ...
12:54 AM, Aug 02, 2012
London: Contrary to reports that Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa may be reinstated in the women's double event, India's re-appeal against the result of a group B match between Japan and Chinese Taipei in the doubles badminton competition, which they alleged was not played in the right spirit and resulted in the elimination of the Indian pair, was turned down here on Wednesday. Russia, Canada, Australia and South Africa have...
10:08 PM, Aug 01, 2012
