New Delhi, July 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chief national coach Pullela Gopichand will not be on the court-side when PV Sindhu starts the campaign for her second Olympic medal at Tokyo later this month. With Saina Nehwal…
Kuala Lumpur, July 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Men’s singles badminton player Lee Zii Jia will join his veteran teammate Goh Liu Ying as Malaysia’s flagbearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23, the…
Bhubaneswar, July 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Odisha government has recommended the name of para-badminton player Pramod Bhagat for the country’s highest sporting honour, “Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award”, for the year 2021. The state also recommended…
Kuala Lumpur, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Badminton fans can expect top quality matches during the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said on Thursday. Various bodies responsible for the preparations including the world…
Beijing, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Chinese Badminton Association on Wednesday announced its 14-player squad, including the 2016 Olympics champion Chen Long, for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Chen Long will defend the men’s singles crown in…
New Delhi, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has decided to commence the remainder of the 2021-22 domestic season at the earliest and has sounded out the state associations to get their…
Kuala Lumpur, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Sudirman Cup Finals 2021 and the BWF World Tour Finals, two key badminton tournaments this year which were originally planned to take place in China, have now been moved…
Bengaluru, June 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Badminton Gurukul (BG) and Sports School Badminton Academy (SSBA) have joined hands to promote badminton by announcing scholarship in three age groups of under-13, u-16 and u-19 years for boys and…
New Delhi, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s star shuttler and Rio Olympic Games silver-medallist PV Sindhu said competition in Tokyo Olympics would be tough as top 10 players in women’s singles event are of the same…
Hyderabad, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ace India shuttler PV Sindhu on Wednesday sent a heartfelt message to arch-rival and 2016 Rio Olympics gold medallist, Spain’s Carolina Marin, who has withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics due to…
New Delhi, May 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth’s hopes of making it to this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games ended on Friday as badminton’s global governing body said that no more qualifying…
New Delhi, May 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth’s hopes of making it to this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games ended on Friday as badminton’s global governing body said that no more qualifying…
Hyderabad, May 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Badminton star and 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist PV Sindhu said that she would like to have breakfast with tennis legend Serena Williams because of her “jovial” and “friendly” nature. In…
Kuala Lumpur, May 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) A proposal to change the badminton scoring system to best-of-five games of 11 points from the current best-of-three games of 21 points just fell short of gaining enough votes at…
New Delhi, May 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Teenage para-badminton player Palak Kohli has qualified for Tokyo Paralympic Games which start on August 24. “We got the official communication on Saturday. I’m ecstatic to hear the news. In…
Bengaluru, May 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former All England champion Prakash Padukone is making good recovery after having been discharged from a Bengaluru hospital where he was admitted for a week due to Covid. Padukone, who was…
New Delhi, May 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a setback for Indians hoping to qualify for this year’s Tokyo Olympics, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced on Wednesday the cancellation of the last Olympic qualification event, the…
New Delhi, May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Badminton Association of India (BAI) said on Friday that it has sought clarity from the world body on the qualification scenario for Indian players following the postponement of the…
New Delhi, May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The chances of several Indian badminton players hoping to qualify for this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games were dealt a body blow on Friday as the Malaysia Open Super 750 tournament…
New Delhi, May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Malaysia Open Super 750 badminton tournament has been postponed and will no longer be an Olympic qualification event, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said on Friday. The tournament was…