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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who played a pivotal role in India's historic Thomas Cup triumph, pulled out of the Thailand Open Super 500 tournament beginning on Tuesday. It is learnt that Chirag suffered some niggles during the tournament and the pair has informed the Badminton Association of India on Monday about their decision to skip the event this week.
HANOI: There would be no disqualification, no controversy and no doubt who won the men’s 4x100m medley at the 31st SEA Games on Monday (May 16) as Singapore cruised to victory at the My Dinh Water Sports Palace in Hanoi.
Lengkap sudah empat tim di babak semifinal sepakbola SEA Games 2021. Indonesia akan menghadapi Thailand yang menjadi juara Grup B.
Indonesia memastikan tiket semifinal nomor beregu putra di SEA Games 2021. Hal itu dipastikan lewat kemenangan Christian Adinata.
Bangkok, dressed in pristine whites, they numbered nine. The tenth member, Lakshya Sen, was already in Thailand; but the news about him was not good. He had flown in carrying a stomach bug he caught possibly from something he ate before boarding the flight from Bengaluru. Ten days later, Lakshya would turn up in India's first rubber of a dream Thomas Cup Final against Indonesia, He got hammered in the first game 8-21 by Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Anthony Ginting. "I thought he would lose." That was Vimal Kumar's thought, sitting inside Bangkok's Impact Arena with the Indian squad. Lakshya, 'the baby of the team' who has grown in the past year to stun some of the finest exponents of the sport, went on to beat Ginting at his own game over the next 45 minutes. He won 8-21, 21-16, 21-17 to give India a rousing start.
India's historic first Thomas Cup crown was splashed across front pages Monday with some people saying it can be a turning point for badminton much like the country's maiden cricket World Cup title in 1983. Coming in as underdogs against 14-time champions Indonesia, a ruthless India won the final of the men's team championship on Sunday in Bangkok to propel badminton to a rare place on centre stage in the cricket-crazy nation.
Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma were on Monday named captains of the three teams for the Women's T20 Challenge to be played in Pune from May 23. The BCCI announced 16-member squads for each of three teams -- Harmanpreet-led Supernovas, Mandhana-led Trailblazers and Deepti-led Velocity. Trailblazers had won the previous edition held in 2020.
The fact players from Thailand, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Nepal shone as brightly as ones from New Zealand and South Africa in Sunday’s FairBreak Invitational final showed the tournament had delivered on its promise.