Poorvisha S Ram

Syed Modi International: Sameer Verma eyes tiny window to qualify for BWF World Tour Final; Saina Nehwal starts as favourite

If Sameer Verma defends his title, his point's tally will rise to 66,620, which would put him in a good position to qualify for the BWF World Tour Final.

Thomas & Uber Cup Badminton: Complacent India sent packing from competition after women's team loses to Japan

Every team seeded in the top eight among both men and women duly made it to the quarter-finals – barring India. The over-confident Indians, fielded second-string squads, generously allowed the French men and Canadian women to make the quantum leap into elite company.

Thomas and Uber Cup: Indian teams get past Australia with ease, but qualification chances appear dim

The women, led by Saina Nehwal, produced a winning 4-1 result, while the HS Prannoy-led men whitewashed Australia 5-0 at the Impact Arena in Bangkok on Monday.

Thomas and Uber Cup: Good day for India as men's and women's team thrash Australia on Day 2

Things still look pretty gloomy for India men's team as they will have to beat heavyweights China on Tuesday to keep quarter-finals hopes alive. The women's are up against five-time champion japan

Thomas and Uber Cup: Saina Nehwal-led Indian women's team pick up dominating win over Australia

After going down 1-4 to Canada in the opening match, Saina and Co. seemed to get their act together as they won all the matches, except the first women's doubles.

Australian Open badminton: India's Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma enter quarters; Manu Attri-Sumeeth Reddy advance

Second seed Praneeth beat Indonesia's Panji Ahmad Maulana 21-12, 21-14, while fourth-seeded Sameer edged past Takuma Ueda of Japan 21-16, 21-12 in their respective second round matches.

Badminton Asia Championships: Kidambi Srikanth, Sai Praneeth progress; Shlok Ramchandran, MR Arjun notch impressive win

World No 5, Kidambi Srikanth, who was fortunate to have been seeded No 1 in this tournament, since the draws were made at a time when he headed the ranking list of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), huffed and puffed against Kenta Nishimoto of Japan, ranked eight places below him at No 13, before coming through at 13-21, 21-16, 21-16.

Highlights, National Badminton Championships, results: PV Sindhu to face Saina Nehwal in final; Kidambi Srikanth advances

Catch the live score and updates from semi-final action at the 82nd Senior National Badminton Championships

National Badminton Championships: PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal enter semis; Kidambi Srikanth to face Lakshya Sen

Olympic medallists PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal sailed into the women's singles semi-finals while men's world number two Kidambi Srikanth also notched up a comfortable win in the 82nd Senior National Badminton Championship on Monday.

World Badminton Championships 2017: Saina Nehwal, B Sai Praneeth register contrasting wins to enter pre-quarters

Saina stamped her authority right from the start as she zoomed to a 4-0 lead before extending it to 11-6.