New Delhi: Although the 2016 Rio Olympics qualification is based on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings that will be released on May 5, seven Indian shuttlers have confirmed to qualify for the Olympics after the recently concluded Badminton Asia Championship (BAC).
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Mumbai: Wednesday was yet another great day for Indian shuttlers when they dominated the badminton finals at the 12th edition of the South Asian Games, eventually ending with seven gold and five silver medals.
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Mumbai: The Indian men and women’s teams romped into the finals of South Asian Games badminton team events at the 12th South Asian Games on Monday and walked away with gold medals in both events with a 3-0 victory against Sri Lanka.
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Kuala Lumpur: The Chinese zodiac calendar, known as Sheng Xiao, is divided into 12 cycles. Each cycle lasts 12 months and is represented by an animal. 2016 is the Year of the Monkey – the “Red Fire Monkey,” to be exact.
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New Delhi: Malaysia’s former men’s doubles chief coach Tan Kim Her who was appointed by Badminton Association of India (BAI) as their new doubles coach, has started making positive change for India’s doubles players.
The 44-year-old coach signed a five-year contract with BAI effective September, has already begun working with Manu Attri/Sumeeth Reddy (men’s doubles) and Jwala Gutta/Ashwini Ponnappa (women’s doubles) to help them qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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Saarbrucken: Malaysian Chong Wei Feng pressed and fought, but ultimately failed to escape the Bitburger Open men’s singles third round against German No. 3 seed Marc Zwiebler on Thursday. Zwiebler’s 17-21, 21-13, 21-17 victory was his second against Chong in their 3rd career meetings.
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New Delhi: Indian badminton players Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa have been named under the Sport’s Ministry Target Olympic Podium (TOP) Scheme.
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Mumbai: Buoyed by her victory with Jwala Gutta at the Canada Open, Ashwini Ponnappa is hopeful of another successful performance at the BWF World Championships, scheduled to begin in Jakarta on Monday. “Ideally, our target is to win a medal,” she said here on Tuesday after being felicitated by the Karnataka Badminton Association for that triumph in Calgary. “The Canada win and our performance in the US Open (semifinal defeat) will give us a huge boost.”
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Mumbai: Jwala Gutta, the ace badminton doubles star, has been requesting the Badminton Association of India (BAI) to hire the services of a specialist coach since the last couple of years. And her efforts bore fruit when BAI finally brought top doubles coach Kim Tan Her on board last week.
Mumbai: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has finally managed to rope in the services of top doubles coach Tan Kim Her on Friday. The Malaysian was in the Capital of India to finalise his contract with the Sports Authority of India, and BAI president Akhilesh Das Gupta said that Tan Kim Her will join the Indian team by the end of September.
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