Hylo Open 2024: Hopes on Malvika Bansod as young Indian players take court
A total of 11 Indian badminton players will be in action in the event with Malvika, ranked 35 in the BWF World Ranking, being the highest ranked among them.
A total of 11 Indian badminton players will be in action in the event with Malvika, ranked 35 in the BWF World Ranking, being the highest ranked among them.
Lakshya Sen and Aakarshi Kashyap won their respective men and women’s second round singles' matches at the 85th Senior National Badminton Championships, here on Thursday.
Asian Games champion Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy’s bid for the fourth BWF title of the season failed as they lost to China’s world No. 1 pair of Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang in three games in the double's final at the China Masters badminton tournament in Shenzhen on Sunday.
The Indian who was world No. 12 in the standings last week hasn’t been outside the top 16 in the women’s singles rankings since January 2013.
India's star men's doubles pair Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy achieved their new career-high ranking on Tuesday after their historic BWF Super 1000 title at the Indonesia Open.
The Olympic qualifiers were supposed to happen in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore along with India before the events were forced to be suspended.
Thomas Lund, secretary-general of the Badminton World Federation, said an announcement on a rejigged 2020 calendar was expected soon.
Last week, the BWF froze the world rankings and world junior rankings until further notice, with the lists backdated to March 17, 2020.
The coronavirus outbreak severely impacted some of the most high profile sporting events worldwide be it the Indian Premier League (IPL) or Serie A and La Liga matches.
The six-day China Masters was due to start on February 25 at Lingshui, in China's southern Hainan island.
