Hendra Setiawan
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PBL 2020: PV Sindhu beats Pune 7 Aces' Rituparna Das in Hyderabad Hunters' final league match
•Star shuttler PV Sindhu expectedly beat Rituparna Das on Wednesday even as her side Hyderabad Hunters has been knocked out of the Premier Badminton League
PBL 2020: Upbeat Bengaluru Raptors face Awadhe Warriors in must-win final league match for last semi-final spot
•While World No 2 Tai Tzu Ying has been Bengaluru's talisman and has remained unbeaten so far, it is B Sai Praneeth who played a pivotal role in their win
PBL 2020: For Chirag Shetty, playing doubles alongside legendary Hendra Setiawan a lesson in on-court awareness
Harshitr •Shetty opened up on the learnings that come from playing alongside a four-time world champion in Setiawan
Indonesia Masters 2020: Miserable campaign for Indian shuttlers casts cloud on Tokyo Olympics participation
Shirishnadkarni •India can, by rights, command one quota place in each of the five badminton events at Tokyo 2020, but to squeeze in a second entry in any of the 64-player draws requires that player or pair to be ranked inside the top-15 in the world
Indian men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty climb to No 9 in BWF World Rankings after run to finals at French Open
•The Indian duo lost in the finals of last week's French Open to World No 1 Indonesian combination of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo.
Thailand Open 2019: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty muffle Chinese world champions’ power to win historic title
Shirishnadkarni •Unseeded Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who have now been playing together for four years, bagged the first major title of their career by notching a tactically brilliant 21-19, 18-21, 21-18 triumph
Japan Open 2019: Defending champion Kento Momota brushes aside Jonatan Christie; Akane Yamaguchi eases past Nozomi Okuhara
Shirishnadkarni •Fourth-seeded Akane Yamaguchi, however, was her usual phlegmatic self, not allowing even a flicker of satisfaction to touch her poker-faced visage after completing a 21-13, 21-15 hatchet job
PBL 2018-19: Hendra Setiawan, Mohammad Ahsan bag crucial victory as Bengaluru Raptors win Premier Badminton League
•Hendra Setiawan and Mohammad Ahsan showed that age is just a number. With the entire stadium cheering vociferously for the Raptors pair, the former world champions never put their foot wrong and finished off a 15-13, 15-10 win
PBL 2018-19: Bengaluru Raptors' Kidambi Srikanth, Hendra Setiawan-Mohammad Ahsan topple Awadhe Warriors to enter final
Shirishnadkarni •It was the singles stars, ably backed up by a former world champion men's doubles combination, that worked the trick for Bengaluru Raptors in their play-off semi-final of the Premier Badminton League's fourth edition (PBL-4) against Awadhe Warriors.
PBL 2018-19: Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth seal semi-final berth for Bengaluru Raptors with win against Chennai Smashers
•Bengaluru lost their first match but roared back into the contention by winning Chennai's trump match, which dashed visitors' semi-finals hopes as getting six points from the tie became impossible