Badminton’s slow-court problem: For India’s Next Gen to thrive, more hours needed on slower conditions
* At his absolute peak in 2017, Kidambi Srikanth was denied a charge at the World title, stopped by ...
Writer: Shivani Naik
Rising badminton star Malvika Bansod on the importance of a travelling coach and reading the Bhagavad Gita to unwind
Malvika Bansod, 23, became the first Indian woman in nearly three years to reach the quarterfinals o...
‘…Now I’ll figure out how to win much more’: Malvika Bansod beats Tunjung, Paris Olympics bronze medallist in Badminton
A computer engineer, who digs anything that’s printed on paper from detective fiction novels to Math...
Anmol Kharb, India’s Asian Team Championship golden girl wins first individual international badminton title
Anmol Kharb, India’s breakout badminton prodigy integral to the Asian Team gold medal at the start o...
Double-Olympic gold medallist Lee Yang retires: The unlikely Badminton doubles star who often surprised himself
Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin have what Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty would’ve dearly loved ...
The Breaking star: B-girl Dutch star India who has never been to India
She doesn’t culturally identify with anything Indian, and is happily free-spirited in her dancing in...
Beyond tragic backstories, competitiveness and rivalries take centre stage in para-badminton
Nitesh Kumar was quick to insist he had moved on from a train accident that led to him needing a pro...
Why Nitesh Kumar’s first call after Paralympics gold in para badminton was to defending champion Pramod Bhagat
The gold had to stay in India – that was the tacit promise Nitesh Kumar had made Pramod Bhagat when ...
Paris Paralympics: Shuttler Thulasimathi Murugesan takes silver, vindication for family of modest means
Thulasimathi Murugesan had a birth deformity in her left hand, which allowed only 20-30 percent exte...
From train accident to Paris Paralympics final, Nitesh Kumar engineers path to brink of glory
Daniel Bethell, the British SL3 finalist of para badminton, has known his arch-rival Pramod Bhagat’s...
Badminton’s new face France’s Alex Lanier reframes the sport with muscle power
The last two Olympics men’s singles titles have gone to a European, not an Asian. And the first Tour...
How India’s U-15 winner trained in China, won local tournament at 6
Rabinarayan Patri knows a thing or two about China and badminton. He informs that there is no “troph...