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China will be hosting the World Tour finals end of the year

Just a month ago, Badminton World Federation (BWF) cancelled its World Tour events in Hong Kong and Macau, now the sport is making a comeback to China in the form of the World Tour Finals later in December. The city of Guangzhou is set to host badminton’s flagship event from December 14 to 18. However, […]

Ashwini Ponnappa set roar in mixed doubles

Badminton player Ashwini Ponnappa is set for a new journey and is “very greedy” for her career ahead, she chuckles, brimming with the start of a plan. Although, away from the game currently, she has decided to not continue her partnership with N. Sikki Reddy anymore. Starting from scratch, the mixed doubles, will partner with […]

Anupama Upadhyay becomes the new junior No. 1 in BWF rankings

The badminton player has jumped to first position in 18 tournaments with 18.60 points, Anupama climbed up two spots, she is one of the four Indian girls in the top 10 of the junior rankings. She becomes only the second shuttler to reach the first position in the BWF rankings, the girl, hailing from Panchkula […]

Top 10 most popular sports in the world as per participation

Football According to the last global census which was undertaken by the sports governing body FIFA, it was estimated that there are 265 million people who play the sport along with almost 5 million referees, these numbers account to 4% of the worlds population. Be it just watching or even playing at junior levels, senior […]

Badminton World Championship set to kick off from 22nd August

The BWF World Championship 2022 will be starting from August 21 in Tokyo, Japan. Indian shuttlers in the likes of Saina Nehwal, Viktor Axelsen, Kento Momota and Tai Tzu Ying will compete in the BWF top flight event. Moreover, recent Commonwealth Games medalist PV Sindhu will not be participating in the event as she suffered […]

Top badminton players of the world

PV Sindhu The ones who follow badminton, surely know about PV Sindhu and just to let you know, there has not been anyone who was able to snatch the No. 1 position from her for quite some time. The female badminton player has won a bronze at the Olympics. has always hit the right chord […]

Top channels to watch your favourite sport

Star Sports 1 The channel was earlier named as ESPN Sports, the channel is more of a cricket-centric pay-TV sports channel that is owned by Star India. Its operations were headed from Singapore, later Star India took the rights and relaunched the channel in 2013. Star Sports is the official broadcaster of the Indian cricket. […]

Hot and Famous female badminton champions of the world

One of the top sports in India and the world, here we present to you the top and most famous female badminton players: Jwala Gutta She is an Indian badminton player, mainly of doubles. She has won gold medal in Commonwealth Games and South Asian Games with Ashwini Ponnappa. The girl has charmed everyone with […]

India lifts maiden Thomas Cup; history scripted

A dream which every Indian thought has come as a reality, India wins the ultimate title in badminton, the Thomas Cup. However, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Lakshay Sen and HS Prannoy. They knew, they said as much, they hoped the country would believe, they didn’t mind if it didn’t. They were due […]

Top Quotes by PV Sindhu

PV Sindhu became India’s first athlete to ever capture gold at the World Championships through her unwavering determination and courage. PV Sindhu plays badminton for India. Born in Hyderabad in 1995, Sindhu plays for the national team of India. Sindhu began playing badminton when she was eight years old. Soon after, she joined Pullela Gopichand’s […]