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(Reuters) - Noah Rubin has been unable to hit the heights expected of him since winning junior Wimbledon in 2014 and the American says he has decided to swap his racket for a paddle to explore a career in the fast-growing sport of pickleball.
Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu is hoping to make a comeback at the season-ending World Tour Finals in December after being forced to take a long break from the international circuit due to an ankle injury. One of the fittest sportsperson in the circuit, Sindhu had suffered a stress fracture on her left foot on way to her maiden Commonwealth Games gold medal in Birmingham in August.
While Praneeth, a former world championships bronze medallist, had to work hard for his 21-11 12-21 21-16 victory over Karnataka's Mithun Manjunath in the men's singles final, Aakarshi saw off top seed Malvika Bansod of Maharashtra 21-8 22-20 in the women's singles summit clash. Thirty-year-old Praneeth's success meant that Telangana grabbed three gold medals in badminton. They had won the mixed team and women's doubles titles earlier.
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During the year, they won the India Open Super 500 series title, helped fashion country's historic Thomas Cup victory, won the men's doubles gold at the CWG in Birmingham before becoming the first Indian men's doubles combination to clinch a momentous World Championships medal - a bronze. Chirag, who represented Maharashtra in the mixed team event here at the National Games Gujarat, said that the duo has set a target of breaking into the top-5 in the world ranking. The Indians are presently ranked eighth.
badminton gold at the National Games here on Monday. Enduring a dip in form for over a year now, Tokyo Olympian Praneeth finally had something to cheer about as he dug deep into his reservoir to see off Kerala's top shuttler Prannoy 18-21 21-16 22-20 to give Telangana a 2-0 lead. His victory came on the heels of another brilliant show by the husband-and-wife duo of B Sumeeth Reddy and N Sikki Reddy, who got the better of the youthful pair of MR Arjun and Treesa Jolly 21-15 14-21 21-14 in a thrilling battle.
The evaluation period for TOISA 2021 was from January 1 to December 31, 2021. All achievements during this time period were considered by the jury. Meet one of the big contenders for the TOISA 2021 Male Badminton Player of the Year award - Kidambi Srikanth, who recently won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
India's N Sikki Reddy and Rohan Kapoor dug deep to beat Hong Kong's Fan Ka Yan and Yeung Shing Choi and reach the mixed doubles quarterfinals at the Vietnam Open Super 100 badminton tournament on Thursday. The Indian pair won 21-10, 19-21, 21-18 in a match lasting 50 minutes.