Marcus Fernaldi Gideon

Badminton Asia Team Championships: India come close to upsetting defending champs Indonesia, but settle for bronze

Rank outsiders India did everything but tame defending champions Indonesia, but finally bowed out by the odd match in five, to settle for the Badminton Asia Team Championships bronze medal.

Badminton Asia 2020: Kidambi Srikanth, Chirag Shetty's clutch doubles win sees Indian men beat Thailand to set up Indonesia clash

The twist in the tale was provided by India’s erstwhile premier singles player, Kidambi Srikanth, who shrugged off his 20-22, 14-21 defeat at the hands of world junior champion

BWF World Tour Finals 2019: PV Sindhu must find top gear to defend title; Kento Momota overwhelming favourite in men's singles

PV Sindhu would not have been part of the 'elite eight' at World Tour Finals had it not have been for her World Championships win earlier this year. Now, she will quickly need to step up her game as she walks into the tournament on the back of a streak of dismal results.

China Open 2019: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty's upward journey through BWF rankings comes at perfect time for Olympics push

The Indians would still remain behind the sixth-placed Japanese twosome of Hiroyuki Endo-Yuta Watanabe (72,763 points), but Rankireddy and Shetty have beaten the Japanese pair twice this year (including a 21-18, 21-23, 21-11 triumph at the quarter-final stage of the China Open), after losing to them in their initial two clashes, to net a 2-2 career head-to-head record

China Open 2019: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty lose to top seeds Marcus Gideon and Kevin Sukamuljo in semi-final

The Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty's impressive run came to an end after they lost to three-time defending champions Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo of Indonesia in the semi-final of USD 700,000 China Open on Saturday.

China Open 2019: India's Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty pair stuns Li Jun Hui- Liu Yu Chen duo to enter men's doubles semi-final

The men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty kept alive India's challenge at the China Open by progressing to the semi-finals of the BWF World Tour Super 750 event on Friday

Indonesia Open 2019: Fifth seed PV Sindhu downs Dane Mia Blichfeldt to reach quarter-final; Kidambi Srikanth ousted in second round

India's PV Sindhu battled past Mia Blichfeldt to seal her place in the quarterfinals of the Indonesia Open where she might face known rival Nozomi Okuhara

Indonesia Open 2019: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty enter second round, Ashwini Ponnappa-Sikki Reddy ousted

Indian doubles pairs had a tough time at the Indonesia Open, the men's and mixed doubles pairs moving on but the women's doubles pair bowing out

Sudirman Cup 2019: Indonesia rely on doubles strength to eliminate Chinese Taipei; Japan breeze into semi-finals

Saturday's semi-finals of Sudirman Cup will see hosts China taking on unconsidered Thailand in the first of the elite group penultimate-round ties in morning, while the Indonesians and Japanese cross swords with one another in the evening.

Badminton Asia Championships 2019: Kento Momota, Akane Yamaguchi make it a Japanese singles clean sweep

Kento Momota and Akane Yamaguchi won the singles crowns to make it a Japanese clean sweep at the Badminton Asia Championships.