Last year, Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medalist won the Syed Modi International, Swiss Open and Singapore Open titles, making it her best-ever BWF World Tour season in terms of the number of tournaments captured. She also won the women's singles gold at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingh
Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen hardly broke a sweat and defeated Japanese shuttler Kodai Naraoka by a 21-12, 21-11 scoreline in his men's singles round of 32 match.
As the world's greatest shuttlers will be engaged in high-voltage action at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open--organised by the Badminton Association of India, here are Top-5 players to watch out for in the men's singles at the mega event.
Distinguished names from all over the world will be gracing the prestigious tournament with their dynamic performances, making the event a one-of-a-kind spectacle for the country's sports enthusiasts. Here are the Top-10 women shuttlers to keep an eye on at the biggest badminton event of Ind
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.
The Japanese shuttler had a 2-0 head-to-head advantage over Prannoy going into their quarterfinal matchup on Friday at the opening BWF World Tour event of the season
Prannoy has been in a rich vein of form in 2022, having played a pivotal role in India's maiden Thomas Cup title. The shuttler was also the only Indian to feature in the BWF World Tour finals where he finished with a victory over World No 1 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in his third and final Gr
HS Prannoy, ranked 12th in the world, was defeated by world No. 14 Japanese shuttler 21-12, 9-21, 21-17 in a men's singles Group A match that lasted an hour.
Earlier, men's singles shuttler Gnana Dattu and men's doubles pair Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas P. V. had secured bronze medals in the U-15 category.
According to media reports, the FIR has been filed by M Goviappa Nagaraja, who alleged that the 2022 Commonwealth Gold Medalist and his brother Chirag Sen had doctored their age to get into playing age-group tournaments since 2010.