Dubai Badminton Asia Championships, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty enter final of Men's Doubles

April 29, 2023 9:14 PM

Dubai Badminton Asia Championships, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty enter final of Men's Doubles

In Badminton Asia Championship, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have entered the final of Men's Doubles, ensuring at least a silver medal for India. Their opponents Lee Yang and Wang Chilin of Chinese Taipei retired during the second game of the Semifinal match. The Indian duo won the first game 21-18. The final scores were 21-18, 13-14. The Rankireddy-Shetty pair defeated the seasoned Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the quarterfinal in straight games ...

Asia Badminton Championships: PV Sindhu settles for Bronze after losing to Japan's Akane Yamaguchi in semifinals

April 30, 2022 1:42 PM

Asia Badminton Championships: PV Sindhu settles for Bronze after losing to Japan's Akane Yamaguchi in semifinals

In Asia Badminton Championships, India's P.V. Sindhu today won her second Asian bronze medal after a heartbreaking three-game loss to top-seed and defending champion Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the semifinal in Manila. The two-time Olympic medallist and former world champion, Sindhu had the match in her control after clinching the opening game 21-13 and leading 13-11 in the second. However, a point penalty for time wasting for Sindhu completely changed the complexion of the match as fro...

Badminton: Indian shuttlers knocked out of Asia C'ships in China

April 26, 2019 6:22 PM

Badminton: Indian shuttlers knocked out of Asia C'ships in China

In Badminton, Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu and Sameer Verma have been knocked out after losing their quarterfinals of the Asia Championships being held in Wuhan, China today.  In the women's singles, Saina lost 13-21, 23-21, 16-21 to third seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan.  Sindhu went down 19-21, 9-21 against world number 17 China's Cai Yanyan.  In the men's singles, Sameer Verma lost 10-21, 12-21 to  China's Shi Yuqi.