Premier Badminton League (PBL) is all set for a much-awaited comeback with season 6, scheduled from December 17 to January 14.
PARA Badminton Player Girish Sharma had a face-off against top ranker Srikanth Kidambi
Hyderabad Hunters proved that they are primed to defend the title they won last year when they took an unassailable lead of 4-(-1) over newcomers Pune 7 Aces even before PV Sindhu and Carolina Marin took the court for the marque encounter of the fourth season of Vodafone Premier Badminton League at the NSCI Dome on Saturday.
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal slipped a place to move out of the top 10 of the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings released on Thursday.
Indian women's singles star shuttler P.V. Sindhu may have missed out on her third consecutive major individual title but she sees a lot of positives with her consistent run, adding that she is hopeful of a gold medal in the future.
Badminton legend Prakash Padukone has no hesitation in calling four-time World Championship medallist P.V. Sindhu as one of the "greats" among Indian shuttlers even as he hoped that the Hyderabadi will break her silver medal run in major championships.
There are similarities in Indias defeat in the Birmingham Test and Pusarla Venkata Sindhu losing the World Badminton Championships final. Both were expected to win, yet lost.
Indian women's singles star P.V. Sindhu overcame Japanese second seed Akane Yamaguchi in straight games in Nanjing (China) on Saturday to march into the second consecutive final of the Badminton World Championships.
Women's singles star P.V, Sindhu was the lone Indian to enter the semi-finals of the Badminton World Championships, with Saina Nehwal, B. Sai Praneeth and the mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa losing in the quarter-finals here on Friday.
ASHWINI PONNAPPA/SATWIK along with Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, Parupalli Kashyap among other Indian shuttlers enter quarter-finals of India Open while Srikanth suffered shock defeat.
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