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Synthetic shuttles a feather in BWF's cap or doomed to fail in drift-heavy tournament conditions?
Shirishnadkarni • 5 years agoVimal suggests that, if at all the BWF is thinking of introducing the synthetic shuttle in tournament play, it should be done with the younger lot of players.
Coronavirus Outbreak: India's World No 27 Lakshya Sen laments halt in stunning form due to COVID-19 shutdown
• 5 years agoWith the world in lockdown to contain the deadly disease, Lakshya too is enduring the uncertain times within the confines of his apartment, near the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in Bengaluru
OGQ and Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy rope in Danish legend Morten Frost as consultant coach for juniors
• 6 years agoOlympic Gold Quest (OGQ), in association with the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA), has roped in legendary Danish shuttler Morten Frost as a consultant coach for junior players at the academy in Bengaluru.
Youth Olympic Games 2018: Complacency, absence of physio denies Lakshya Sen coveted gold medal in Buenos Aires
Shirishnadkarni • 6 years agoTo some extent, Lakshya had only himself to blame for the manner in which he scraped through the semi-final against Japan's second-seeded Kodai Naraoka.
World Badminton Championships 2018: PV Sindhu's second successive silver medal should be lauded and not pilloried
Shirishnadkarni • 7 years agoMany fail to take into account is the awesome consistency that PV Sindhu has shown over the past five years, winning two World Championship silver (2017, 2018) and bronze (2013, 2014) medals each, and a silver at the last Olympics (2016).
Lakshya Sen's gold medal win at Asia Junior Championships commendable, but room for improvement should not be ignored
Shivam Damohe • 7 years agoEn route to the gold medal in Jakarta, Lakshya outmuscled the No 2 China's Li Shifeng and No 4 Ikhsan Leonardo Imanuel Rumbay – in successive rounds before dismantling the defending champion in straight games.
Asian Junior Badminton 2018: Lakshya Sen justifies sweat and tears with hard-earned historic gold medal
Shirishnadkarni • 7 years agoLakshya Sen became the first male Indian player in 53 years to win the Junior Asian Badminton Championships title.
New Zealand Open: Lakshya Sen reiterates credentials as future of Indian badminton by stretching Lin Dan
Shirishnadkarni • 7 years agoSen seemed wise to the left-hander’s patented style of playing at a languid pace and waiting for his rival to make a mistake, and interspersing this pattern with a couple of points played at a blinding pace.
Tata Open 2017: Former national champion Sourabh Verma seeded No 1 in men's singles event
• 7 years agoFormer national men's singles champion Sourabh Verma is bidding to repeat his four-year-old triumphant run as the top seed in the 10th Tata Open Indian International Challenge Badminton tournament
Lakshya Sen could not usurp Prakash Padukone's record at Nationals, but has potential to be the best
Shirishnadkarni • 7 years agoSen is being groomed to be a top player at global level, with PPBA chief coach Vimal Kumar carefully selecting the tournaments in which the teenager participates.