PV Sindhu reached her third consecutive BWF World Championship final after beating World No. 3 Chen Yufei 21-7 21-14 in the semi-finals.
IOA president Narinder Batra met Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday along with Boxing Federation of India chief Ajay Singh.
Sindhu will face either 2013 world champion Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand or 2017 winner Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the summit clash on Sunday.
Rana is the coach who groomed teen shooting sensations such as Manu Bhaker, Saurabh Chaudhary and Anish Bhanwala who went to bag several medals at the world stage.
In the Fortungiants-Pirates encounter, Rohit Gulia's Super 10 (10 raid points) turned out to be the gamechanger as Pardeep Narwal's early heroics went in vain.
Prakash Padukone was the first Indian to win a men's singles World Championships medal -- a bronze -- in the 1983 edition.
The 24-year-old Indian, an Olympic silver medallist, will take on the winner of the match between China's Chen Yu Fei and Denmark's Mia Blichfeldt on Saturday.
Saina Nehwal's husband Parupalli Kashyap, who is a badminton player by profession as well, also lashed out at the umpire following the narrow defeat.
World no. 5 India rested some senior players and fielded a relatively young team for the Olympic Test event but still managed to lift the crown, defeating New Zealand 5-0 in the final on Wednesday.
PV Sindhu will take on Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu-ying in a much-anticipated women's singles quarterfinal contest at the BWF World Championships.
Saina Nehwal lost 21-15 25-27 12-21 against Mia Blichfeldt, seeded 12th, in a marathon women's singles match.
Hours after the suspension of India's only WADA-recognized dope-test laboratory, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) blamed NADA for not paying enough attention to the issue.
In what could be a big blow to India's anti-doping movement ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended India's National Dope Test Laboratory (NDTL).
Srikanth lost 14-21, 13-21 against Kantaphon Wangcharoen of Thailand in the pre-quarterfinal match while Prannoy's campaign ended with a loss at the hands of world no. 1 Momota.
Bengaluru's loss meant they lost out on an opportunity to go to the top of the points table.
Sindhu, who had reached the finals of Indonesia Open last month, looked in good touch as she controlled the rallies and outsmarted Chinese Taipei's Pai Yu Po.
BFI had cancelled trials in Mary Kom's 51kg category for the World Boxing Championships and had sent her name for it based on her past performances.
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It still is not over for Jitender as the Federation has given him the option to book a World Championship berth in 79kg by challenging today's winner Virdev Gulia.
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