London 2012 medallist Saina Nehwal has decided to pull out of the Indian badminton squad selection trials for the Asian Games 2023 due to fitness issues, according to the Olympics.com.
Indian badminton players N Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor won both their mixed doubles matches in Group C to make their way into the round of 32 of the Badminton Asia Championships 2023 on Tuesday.
Earlier, at the women's singles competition at the Orleans Master 2023 BWF Super 300 badminton tournament in France on Wednesday, Indian badminton star Saina Nehwal lost in the opening round
The Indian badminton duo of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy is the last remaining Indian challenge at this year's Swiss Open. Even with the added pressure the duo managed to book their place in the semi-finals of the Swiss Open. They defeated the world No. 27 Danish pair of Jeppe B
Indian badminton player PV Sindhu bowed out of the women's singles while HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth exited the men's singles competition at the Swiss Open 2023 in Basel on Thursday.
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
This is going to be India's first-ever semis appearance in the tournament. In 2019, it was knocked out in group stages while it was defeated 3-2 by Thailand in the quarterfinals of the inaugural tournament back in 2017.
India has qualified for the QFs with wins over Kazakhstan and UAE as well. They have maintained a perfect record of three wins in three ties. In the quarterfinals on Friday, India will be playing Hong Kong, which finished at number two in Group D, as per Olympics.com
The Indian duo, who had lost the first set, was trailing 17-10 in the second and appeared poised to defeat but the ace shuttlers ranked fifth in the world in men's doubles, made a stunning comeback to win the match 17-21, 22-20, 21-9.
Kodai Naraoka of Japan defeated Prannoy in his first match of the mega tournament on Wednesday. Even if the third-seeded Indian badminton player defeats Tokyo 2020 winner Viktor Axelsen in the last group match on Friday, the back-to-back losses will not allow him to advance to the semi-final