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 ...
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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...
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...
Ashwini Ponnappa owes the world nothing—not a win, not an invoice
Ashwini Ponnappa won India’s first World Championships bronze of the ongoing streak since Prakash Pa...
An Se Young or Chen Yufei or Carolina Marin- who will stake claim to greatness?
There is generational greatness on offer at the Paris Olympics, even if not the GOAT (greatest of al...
What Chirag Shetty-Satwikwsairaj Rankireddy don’t have that Paris Olympics gold contenders from China, Indonesia, Malaysia do
Chirag Shetty, a fairly well-read and soft-spoken doubles badminton player and mighty high-achieving...
PV Sindhu has been grinding it out leading to the Olympics, but is it a good thing?
Maybe none of the past matters, because it is the Olympics and because it is PV Sindhu at the Games....
Trailblazer Saina Nehwal’s insane consistency made her a great, with Indonesia her happy hunting ground
It’s been 15 years, and one day more, since an Indian first resurfaced on the international badminto...
Will the budget cuts hamstring coach Park Joo-Bong and Japan’s yearning for Paris Olympic medals in Badminton?
Park Joo-bong, a former Korean doubles legend and the longterm director of Japanese badminton for 20...
Indian Olympic shuttlers from Sindhu to Satwik-Chirag to simulate Paris conditions, but their games too needs sprucing
India’s Olympic-bound shooters and archers are attempting to recreate the field-of-play from the Par...
Why Indian badminton needs to stay patient with Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand
Sensational, unending, long, 80-90 shot rallies is where women’s doubles pairings get famous in what...
Ashmita Chaliha’s rise from a sheltered introverted life to ambitious competitor
Geetali Chaliha’s minor quibble whenever her talented badminton-playing daughter, Ashmita, returns f...
Para badminton: Palak Kohli was told ‘career khatm’ after bone tumour diagnosis, but her ‘comeback louder than setback’
The straight-up pragmatism when a boring school teacher asked Palak Kohli to focus on studies and gr...
Savour the retiring Tai Tzu Ying and Ratchanok Intanon, Badminton’s Federers
Tai Tzu Ying and Ratchanok Intanon will compete in their fourth Olympics at Paris. But it is to thei...
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty must quell the threat of serve variations, with help from coach Mathias Boe
Mathias Boe is an extremely passionate and methodical coach, who has brought in discipline, rigour a...
Uber Cup: Isharani Baruah, with a jump smash in the Akane Yamaguchi mould, is pure joy to watch
The jump drop mixed with the leaping clears are slowly gentrifying Isharani Baruah’s wild, untamed, ...
Can Lakshya Sen and Priyanshu Rajawat own the baton-passing moment at Thomas Cup?
It wasn’t necessarily the ‘India-effect’, but most Thomas Cup teams at this 2024 edition, are hittin...
Ishaan Bhatnagar: A high-flying Olympic dream, followed by ACL and what happens to a badminton player when the knee crash lands on you
It’s awkward for Ishaan Bhatnagar when he exchanges polite and fake smiles with a few fellow players...
The beautiful indestructible mind of Carolina Marin, the Olympic contender
The visible ingredients of Carolina Marin’s success are often unpalatable to many badminton watchers...
Badminton: Where are the famous Indonesian doubles pairings in an Olympic year? All England could be the start of their re-emergence
The Indonesian doubles dominance had gone missing until this week at All England. Fajar Alfian and M...