The world no.1 badminton pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty of India defeated Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan of Chinese Taipei by 21-11, 21-17 to clinch their first BWF title of the 2024 season at French Open Super 750.
Indian women's team stunned Japan in the first semifinal by 3-2 with Gayatri Gopichand-Treesa Jolly, Ashmita Chaliha and Anmol Kharb recording brilliant wins guiding India to their first-ever final at the Badminton Asia Team Championship.
Kiran George will challenge Priyanshu Rajawat for the top spot in men's singles, while Aakarshi Kashyap will clash with Ashmita Chaliha to decide the women's singles winner in the BAI's national selection trials on Wednesday, April 20.
Worried at the trend, the BAI advised all the stakeholders to postpone the events, starting with this month's senior ranking tournament scheduled in Bengaluru from April 18-25.
Guwahati-based Bhattacharjee was a top shuttler of the country in the 1990s.
The direction came after it came to light that a Goa-based organisation is conducting such an event next month.
BAI general secretary Ajay Singhania met sports minister Kiren Rijiju to chalk out a plan for conducting the USD 400,000 India Open event, which is scheduled to be held from March 30 to April 4 at the Indira Gandhi Stadium.
The tournaments, slated to be held in Denmark from October 3 to 11, was set to mark the resumption of international badminton after it came to a halt in March following the outbreak of novel coronavirus.
The Badminton Association of India is planning a training camp in Hyderabad from July 1.
On disciplinary grounds, the BAI did not nominate world number 14 Srikanth and 28th ranked Prannoy for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award respectively.
Prannoy questioned the selection criteria for Arjuna Award while criticising the selection of Sameer Verma
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has recommended Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and Sameer Verma for Arjuna Awards.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) had last week sent a letter to BAI, asking it for a slot to conduct the BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament, which was suspended last month along with the other Tokyo Games qualifiers due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Badminton World Federation has suspended all tournaments till April 12 due to the pandemic, which has brought the whole world to a standstill with countries shutting down borders and going into lockdown mode.
BAI and the Badminton World Federation (BWF) had issued a joint statement on Wednesday, informing that the event will be held without any spectators due to the global novel coronavirus outbreak.
Apart from Sindhu, BAI also announced Rs 5 Lakh cash reward for World Championships bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth.
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New Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) Tuesday announced a cash reward of Rs.40 lakh for the women's team that created history by winning the maiden bronze medal in the just concluded Uber Cup.It
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