Badminton

Young badminton talent from all over Tamil Nadu are gearing up to compete in the second edition of the Junior Badminton League.

Vaishnavi Puneyani is ranked 18th in Para-Badminton SL4 world rankings and despite a life-changing accident, she is looking to target glory at Paris Paralympics 2024

Following a huge response from players, the Badminton Association of India decided to extend the deadline for its onetime VARS to July 10 in wake of rampant age-fudging cases in the sport. Under the scheme, the apex body had allowed players to rectify the...

Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen, Priyanshu Rajawat, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, MR Arjun, Dhruv Kapila, Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala had made history for India

The players are undergoing an extensive two-week training camp at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula as part of REC Limited's support

The 30-year-old Indian shuttler got the better of his compatriot in straight sets 21-17, 22-20 in the men’s singles match that lasted 45 minutes to confirm his place in the last eight of the tournament in Jakarta

The 23-year-old George, who had caused a couple of upsets to reach the last-eight stage, went down 16-21, 17-21 in a 41-minute encounter against the French player

Kiran, the world number 59, took 39 minutes to beat his higher-ranked Chinese opponent 21-11, 21-19 in the men's singles round of 16 clash.

The Satwik-Chirag pair now has 74,651 points from 12 tournaments.

Indian players will be selected based on their performances in the selection trials for the Badminton Asia Junior Championships

PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth won theri matches to book their places in the quarterfinals of the Malaysia Masters

BWF has decided to continue its decision from last year, when the badminton body banned the athletes and officials representing the two countries from participating in any of its international tournaments, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Lakshya Sen and newly-crowned national champion Mithun Manjunath, as well as Malvika Bansod, Saina Nehwal, Ashwini Ponnappa and B Sumeeththe, will be the top Indian players at German Open

PV Sindhu's coach Vidhi Chaudhary and fitness trainer Srikanth Madapalli will be travelling to England, Spain and Switzerland with the shuttler

Park Tae Sang said he felt responsible for PV Sindhu's disappointing start to the season and that the Indian asked for a change

The growing popularity of the game has resulted in taking the demand for quality racquets sky high and the market share for badminton is seeing a 10-15% YoY growth.