BWF World Championships Highlights: Kunlavut Vitidsarn bounces back from a game down to win 18-21, 21-13, 21-14 and enter the World Championships final for a second consecutive time.
In a nail-biter, Prannoy once again showed his big-match temperament as he fought back from a game down to outwit the world No. 1 one Axelsen 13-21, 21-15, 21-16 in-front of his home crowd at the Roal Arena.
World number 9 Prannoy once again displayed his sterling fighting qualities during his 21-18 15-21 21-19 win over the seventh seeded Loh Kean Yew at the Royal Arena.
World number 19 Gayatri and Treesa, who reached the semi-finals of the All England Championships in the last two editions, beat Chang and Yang, ranked 37th, 21-18, 21-10 in 38 minutes.
Lakshya Sen was alert and took the initiatives during the rallies, showing his retrieval skills, speed and shot selection to dominate the proceedings.
HS Prannoy saw off the left-handed Koljonen 24-22, 21-10 to extend his head-to-head count over the Finnish player to 3-0
It was on 20 August in 2016 that she grabbed the silver medal during the Rio Olympics after losing to Spain's Carolina Marin in a pulsating women's singles final.
After enduring a rough patch, Sen turned around his fortune with a title-winning run in Canada in July and followed it up with two semifinal finishes at the US Open and Japan Open
Sindhu, who won the women's singles world title in 2019, however, has been handed a tough draw and she might face Thailand's Ratchanok Intanon and top seed An Se Young of Korea as they are grouped in the top half of the draw
This year's season-ending BWF World Tour Finals will be held from 13-17 December, the federation announced late Wednesday. The finals were last held in China in 2019, in Guangzhou
Besides Mulyo , former All England champion Russian Ivan Sozonov will be the doubles coach, while Korea’s Park Tae-sang, who guided PV Sindhu to a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, will be the third foreign coach.
HS Prannoy has been to two finals this year - winning one - while also making it to a quarter-final and semi-final
HS Prannoy, who finished runner-up at Australian Open, and Lakshya Sen were static at world number 9 and 11 respectively in the latest BWF world rankings released Tuesday.
Bhagat also secured a silver in the singles SL3 category as well as a silver in mixed doubles SL3- SU5 category with Manisha Ramdass. Kadam won a bronze in the singles SL4 category.
HS Prannoy couldn't repeat the heroics of Malaysian Masters and went down fighting in the title clash of the Australian Open in Sydney.
HS Prannoy, who won the Malaysian Masters Super 500 in May, beat young compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat 21-18 21-12 to storm into the Australian Open final
HS Prannoy registered a 21-18, 21-12 victory over the 21-year-old Priyanshu Rajawat in 43 minutes to reach the final at Australian Open 2023.
Australian Open 2023 Highlights: HS Prannoy beats Priyanshu Rajawat 21-18, 21-12 to reach the Australian Open men's singles final. He will face China's Weng Hong Yang in the summit clash.
While Rajawat knocked out compatriot Kidambi Srikanth 21-13 21-8 in a lop-sided men's singles quarter-final, Prannoy came out victorious after a slugfest with Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia
PV Sindhu, who lost in the first round at seven different tour events this season, easily overcame compatriot Aakarshi Kashyap in a second round women's singles match
Mithun Manjunath, ranked 50th in the world, beat Loh 21-19 21-19 in the men's singles first round match that lasted 41 minutes.
Treesa and Gayatri, who climbed two spots to world number 17 in the latest BWF ranking on Tuesday, registered a 21-16 21-17 win over world number 29 Canadian pair in the round of 32.
The US$420,000 event, which has been upgraded to a Super 500 tournament, will be the last chance for Sindhu and Srikanth to regain their touch ahead of the World Championships
The Danish world number one, Viktor Axelsen, fended off a brave challenge from Jonatan Christie of Indonesia to win 21-7, 21-18 in 45 minutes
Sen bounced back from an opening game reversal to keep his rival under pressure but in the end couldn't get across the fifth-seeded Christie.
In-form men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty couldn't produce their 'A' game, going down fighting 15-21 25-23 16-21 to Olympic champions Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lan of Chinese Taipei
In the match between compatriots Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth, the former emerged victorious with a 19-21, 21-9, 21-9 win to advance to the quarters of the Super 750 tournament.
PV Sindhu has been a shadow of her past self after her injury rehabilitation and has dropped to world No. 17 after a series of first-round exits.
India had a mixed start to the Japan Open. While in the men's singles, Srikanth brushed aside Chou Tien-Chen of Taiwan and Prannoy too easily defeated Li Shifeng of China to enter the Round of 16, in the women's singles Aakarshi failed to get past the formidable Yamaguchi of Japan
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have moved to World No 2 - their career-best ranking after winning the Korea Open tournament.