Badminton

Chirag Shetty feels that the singles players received more attention in the country before he and his partner made their mark.

Karunakaran stumbled against Su Li Yang as the Chinese Taipei shuttler recorded a 21-15 17-21 22-20 win against the Indian. Unnati went down to USA’s Lauren Lam emerged winner with a 15-21, 21-13, 18-21.

This was 21-year-old Tanya’s third international title and first of the year. She finished runner-up at the Polish Open and Azerbaijan International in 2024.

Dharmadhikari produced a fight-back after conceding the opening game to triumph 18-21, 21-12, 21-12 against Kolhapur's Prerana Alvekar to seal her place in the last eight.

In the first major badminton event after the Olympics, Indian stars like PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen among others have officially withdrawn from the BWF Japan Open.

Lakshya Sen lost to Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia 21-13, 16-21, 11-21 in a heart-breaking manner to miss out on what could have been a historic bronze for India.

Sen's parents Dhirendra Kumar Sen and Nirmala Sen expressed delight with the performance of their ward despite coming up just short against Viktor Axelsen in the semis, and demonstrated confidence that the star from Almora would clinch bronze in the playo...

A fiery Prannoy would ultimately triumph over the composure of the Vietnamese in three sets of 16--20, 21-11, 21-12 and will face off against his Indian compatriot Lakshya Sen next.

Lakshya Sen beats Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie 21-18, 21-12 in their last Men’s Singles Group Stage clash. Indian shuttler books his spot in the pre-quarters.

Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto lost 11-21, 12-21 to Japan's Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida for their second defeat at Paris Olympics.

Laskhya Sen's victory won’t count anymore after his opponent in the first round, Kevin Cordon pulled out of the Olympic Games due to a left elbow injury

Lakshya Sen beat Kevin Cordon of Guatemala 21-8, 22-20 in his Olympics debut match.

Prakash Padukone is set to travel with the Indian badminton squad for the Paris Olympics as their mentor.

Indian shuttler Chirag Shetty said the Government should treat any other sport equally after the Indian cricket team were honoured with cash reward of Rs 11 crore for winning the T20 World Cup.

In other news, Kidambi Srikanth's opening round match ended in agony as he retired after lagging 14-21 3-11 against Japan's fifth seed Kodai Naraoka.

Lakshya Sen is eliminated after his loss to the top seed Shi Yu Qi in straight sets 9-21, 15-21 at the Badminton Asia Championships.