Ace Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu advanced to the quarter-finals of the women's singles competition while the women's duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Sikki Reddy perished in the quarters of the 2018 Asian Games on Saturday.
Vinesh Phogat became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Asian Games gold while the shooters bagged two silver medals on the second day of competitions in Jakarta on Monday.
Questioning the frequent addition and dropping of many seasoned athletes from the Sports Ministry's Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme, Beijing Olympics gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra also called for accountability from the athletes with consistent performances.
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.
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.
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.
HYDERABAD HUNTERS' celebrated their one month anniversary winning the PBL third edition
PV Sindhu and Pranaav Jerry Chopra /Sikki Reddy, the only ones to enter semi-finals while other Indian shuttlers end their campaign.
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.
DEFENDING CHAMPION PV Sindhu and World No. 3 Kidambi Srikanth led the heavyweights into the second round of the India Open 2018.
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