India struggling to beat USA, who downed Denmark at World Juniors Mixed Team event is a sign of badminton’s impending churn
It was badminton, mind you. Unlike that final instalment of the silly Twilight movie finale, the doo...
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‘I am brave, not stupid’: Amit Rohidas, Indian hockey’s first-rusher, looks back at his red-card foul against England that made him miss Olympics semi-finals
“I am brave. Not stupid,” Amit Rohidas says, in an affable, even tone. He is looking back at the not...
First Indian in 10 years: Ishpreet Singh Chadha beats snooker champion Mark Selby to enter Pro semifinal at Home Nations majors
When Mumbai’s Ishpreet Singh Chadha recently won a rare quarterfinals of the pro snooker circuit for...
Forget ‘next Sindhu or Saina’, focus on a pack of 6-7 players – Pullela Gopichand’s mantra to seize Badminton glory
Pullela Gopichand isn’t burdening himself with the pressure to unearth the ‘next Sindhu or Saina’. H...
Slow-moving Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand caught in fast conditions by Chinese Taipei pair of Hung En-Tzu and Hsieh Pei Shan
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand once again fell wretchedly short against the left-right combinati...
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand face a swarm of women doubles pairings from China, Taiwan and Japan
At the Macau Open Badminton, Chinese Taipei casually unleashed 35 doubles pairings — across women’s,...
Paralympics champion Harvinder Singh taking aim at able-bodied archery events
Harvinder Singh’s immediate ambitions are modest – making the state squad first, and helping the tea...
PV Sindhu: Korean ex-World No 1 Lee Hyun-il joins coaching staff as Indian shuttler bids to find her way back to top level
Refining strokes and smoothening court movements seems to be the goal as PV Sindhu has added former ...
PV Sindhu brings in Anup Sridhar as coach for European swing, says her father Ramana
PV Sindhu intends to target a medal at the next Asian Games, and non injury-permitting, continue eve...
Badminton’s slow-court problem: For India’s Next Gen to thrive, more hours needed on slower conditions
* At his absolute peak in 2017, Kidambi Srikanth was denied a charge at the World title, stopped by ...
Rising badminton star Malvika Bansod on the importance of a travelling coach and reading the Bhagavad Gita to unwind
Malvika Bansod, 23, became the first Indian woman in nearly three years to reach the quarterfinals o...
‘…Now I’ll figure out how to win much more’: Malvika Bansod beats Tunjung, Paris Olympics bronze medallist in Badminton
A computer engineer, who digs anything that’s printed on paper from detective fiction novels to Math...
Anmol Kharb, India’s Asian Team Championship golden girl wins first individual international badminton title
Anmol Kharb, India’s breakout badminton prodigy integral to the Asian Team gold medal at the start o...
Double-Olympic gold medallist Lee Yang retires: The unlikely Badminton doubles star who often surprised himself
Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin have what Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty would’ve dearly loved ...
The Breaking star: B-girl Dutch star India who has never been to India
She doesn’t culturally identify with anything Indian, and is happily free-spirited in her dancing in...
Beyond tragic backstories, competitiveness and rivalries take centre stage in para-badminton
Nitesh Kumar was quick to insist he had moved on from a train accident that led to him needing a pro...
Why Nitesh Kumar’s first call after Paralympics gold in para badminton was to defending champion Pramod Bhagat
The gold had to stay in India – that was the tacit promise Nitesh Kumar had made Pramod Bhagat when ...
Paris Paralympics: Shuttler Thulasimathi Murugesan takes silver, vindication for family of modest means
Thulasimathi Murugesan had a birth deformity in her left hand, which allowed only 20-30 percent exte...
From train accident to Paris Paralympics final, Nitesh Kumar engineers path to brink of glory
Daniel Bethell, the British SL3 finalist of para badminton, has known his arch-rival Pramod Bhagat’s...
Badminton’s new face France’s Alex Lanier reframes the sport with muscle power
The last two Olympics men’s singles titles have gone to a European, not an Asian. And the first Tour...
How India’s U-15 winner trained in China, won local tournament at 6
Rabinarayan Patri knows a thing or two about China and badminton. He informs that there is no “troph...
Badminton: Meet Tanvi Patri, 13-year-old who won Asian U15 title with clean strokeplay and assured footwork
Clean, smooth strokeplay. Unrushed footwork for court movements which are a result of anticipation. ...
Paris 2024 lessons for badminton officials: Look beyond organising tournaments
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) didn’t have much to do in matters of who represented the co...
Lakshya Sen on losing to Viktor Axelsen at Paris Olympics: ‘I was fighting for every point but … this gonna hurt for sometime’
With Lakshya Sen, it’s never about some streaky ray of hope. When he gets going in a big-stakes matc...
Ninja-style obstacle course is how (Modern) Pentathlon will be different at Los Angeles 2028 – and why it will become more accessible
Real horses will stop galloping and the Live carousels at the Olympics’ most emotive event – the mod...
Ashwini Ponnappa owes the world nothing—not a win, not an invoice
Ashwini Ponnappa won India’s first World Championships bronze of the ongoing streak since Prakash Pa...
How Ankita Bhakat put behind shooting a 4, but still fell short of a bronze
At the receiving end of the scathing – some might say, deserved – torrent of criticism on the first ...
Thought she might die, says Vinesh Phogat coach on weight-cut before final
Vinesh Phogat’s coach at the Paris Games, Woller Akos, has said he feared that the wrestler “might d...
Quick Comment: Vinesh should be allowed to mourn her silver loss, stop the ‘she’s a champion’ narrative
The intent of the goodly people might be sincere but the patronising “you are still a winner for us”...
Reigning Paralympic badminton gold medallist Pramod Bhagat blames technical glitch for 18-month suspension for three wherabout breaches
Reigning Paralympic gold medallist and current world champion Pramod Bhagat blames a technical glitc...