TOKYO, AUGUST 22: Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen continued his impressive run, trouncing Danish Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus in straight games to progress to the men’s singles second round at BWF World Championships in Tokyo on Monday. India also registered twin wins in women’s and mixed doubles competition on the opening day which saw B. Sai Praneeth bow out after losing in three games to world number 4 Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei. The 20-year-old Sen, who had returned with […]
JAKARTA, Jun 6: Star badminton couple Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap, along with India’s recent Thomas Cup hero HS Prannoy, made late pullouts from the Indonesian Open Super Series 500 event beginning here on Tuesday. India’s first Olympic medal-winning shuttler Saina has decided to skip citing workload management, while Kashyap is yet to regain fitness after recovering from an hamstring injury. “I had injured my hamstring just before the selection trials and that took seven weeks to heal, then I […]
In Saina, Parupalli's absence, Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu would be in focus as they look to hit top gear in the build-up to the Commonwealth Games, starting July 28.