India's women's doubles pair Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa fell just short against Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi of Japan in a thrilling three-game women's doubles final 14-21, 21-17, 15-21 to finish as Runners-Up at Syed Modi India International Badminton Championship 2023.
The seventh-seeded Crasto-Ponnappa beat compatriots Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand to make it to the quarters. In the semifinals, they had a much tougher challenge in the form of Japanese top seeds Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota.
The shuttler had earlier won the Orleans Masters title this year and shown his promise. He led the game one from the start and won it easily, but was made to work hard in the second game.
Unnati Hooda won her second BWF Super 100 World Tour title. She became the youngest Indian to win a BWF title last year at 14 years of age, beating 21-year-old Smit Toshniwal in the final. In that tournament also, she defeated Farooqui in the quarterfinals.
The Indian pair Tanisha-Ashwini won their game after Maldives' Maisa Fathuhulla Ismail and Aishath Afnaan Rasheed retired. However, they were leading by 21-2, 12-2 when their opponent retired.
Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya, seeded eighth in men’s singles, was India's biggest bet at the Hong Kong Open 2023, which is being held at Hong Kong Coliseum in Kowloon. Other top Indian badminton players like PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth skipped the Hong Kong meet
After losing against Chinese Taipei in the opening Group C encounter on Sunday, India ended up out of the race to make the knockout rounds. India will face Australia in their final group tie on Wednesday but even a win won't help them make the top two.
The Indian duo of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila booked their place in the second round of the men's doubles competition at the Orleans Master 2023 BWF Super 300 badminton tournament in France on Tuesday. While in the women's doubles, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa edged past Ireland's Kate
Indian badminton duo of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly crashed out of the Swiss Open 2023 on Tuesday. Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, lost 21-14, 21-14 to second seeds Apriyani Rahayu and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti of Indonesia. Meanwhile, India's veteran doubles player Ashwini Ponn