Indian badminton team's coach Pullela Gopichand said they missed their star shuttler HS Prannoy, saying that his playing the first match of the gold medal clash would have actually helped them.
Lakshya Sen and the men's doubles pair Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty got India off to a flier but India failed to capitalise on it as they let the hosts China script a comeback and take the tie 3-2.
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
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth disappoints with his early exit in the first round of the ongoing Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships after being outplayed by Kenta Nishimoto in Copenhagen, Denmark on Monday.
Later, Kidambi Srikanth will be in action against Japan's Kenta Nishimoto. BWF World Championships started in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 21 and will go on till August 27.
Prannoy, the sixth seed, lost a closely fought opening game to Chi Yu. But he kept his nerves and registered a victory in the second game which was as closely fought as the first
Indian men’s singles shuttler Mithun Manjunath stormed to the pre-quarters as he got the better of 2021 BWF World Championships Gold medallist Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in straight games 21-19, 21-19 in a major upset during the Round of 32 at the ongoing Australia Open 2023 in Sydney on Wedn
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu will strive to rediscover her form while fellow Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen will be out to extend his purple patch at the Australian Open 2023 BWF Super 500 tournament to be held from August 1 to 6.
India's ace player HS Prannoy beat compatriot Kidambi Srikanth in an all-Indian affair to make it to the men’s singles quarter-finals at the ongoing Japan Open 2023 tournament in Tokyo on Thursday