The Indian badminton team has created history as they won the first-ever Thomas Cup trophy by thrashing the 14-time champions Indonesia in Bangkok on Sunday. Bollywood celebrities congratulated the boys on this huge win.
Taapsee Pannu showered love on her boyfriend Mathias Boe for his role in India's historic Thomas Cup win. Mathias is the Indian men’s badminton team’s doubles coach. For the unversed, Taapsee and Mathias's relationship has been going strong for years.
Netizens on Sunday congratulated the Indian team for winning a historic maiden title in the Thomas Cup World team badminton championships in Bangkok.
Banking on his historic World Championship silver's form, India's Kidambi Srikanth moved up 4 spots to enter top 10 places in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings.
On Saturday, Saina Nehwal bowed out in straight games in the women's singles semifinals to end India's singles challenge at the tournament.
The Indian team, comprising Olympic hopefuls PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and B Sai Praneeth, have been allotted training timings.
Defending Champion Lakshya had to withdraw from SaarLorLux Open in Saarbrucken after his father-cum-coach D K Sen returned a positive test for the virus.
World No. 31 Lakshya dished out a clinical performance to notch up a sensational 21-18 22-20 win over world no. 7 Jonatan in the second singles to keep India in the hunt after B Sai Praneeth retired following a 6-21 thrashing by Anthony Ginting in the opening game of the first singles
The men's team had last won a bronze medal in Hyderabad in the 2016 edition of the tournament.
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) had named a second-string women team for the tournament to be held from February 11 to 16 but a full-strength men's side which features World Championship bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth.
Chief national coach Pullela Gopichand wants his wards to improve their fitness and stay injury free to perform well in major tournaments.
The Indian women's team, which won a historic bronze in the last edition in Incheon, lost the quarterfinal to the top-seeded and the most formidable team in the world.
The players, the coaches, the support staff all of them put in efforts to be in good shape, said the Indian badminton chief coach as India take off for Jakarta.
The 16-year-old from Uttarakhand on Sunday became only the third Indian to win a gold at the prestigious tournament.
Olympic and world championship silver medallist Sindhu brushed aside the challenge of Malaysia's Ying Ying Lee 21-8, 21-14 to set up a clash Carolina Marin.
Sai Praneeth showed stomach to fight but H S Prannoy seemed completely off colour while the rest of the Indian shuttlers lacked the experience to compete against their Chinese counterparts.
After going down 1-4 to Canada in the opening match, Saina and Co. seemed to get their act together as they won all the matches, except the first women's doubles.
The triumphant Indian badminton team that made a historic breakthrough with the mixed team championship gold was rewarded by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) with cash awards to the tune of Rs. 1.3 crore.
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