Karnataka will take on Railways in the men’s team final on Thursday at the Senior National Badminton Championship being held at the KBA courts here. In the semifinals on Wednesday, Karnataka men beat Chhattisgarh 3-1, with S. Bhargav and M. Raghu winning their singles matches and the pair of Nicholas Nathan Raj and Tushar Suveer the doubles. The other last-four …
Priyanshu Rajawat, a member of India’s Thomas Cup winning team, went down fighting against Korea’s Heo Kwang Hee in a three-game contest in the Thailand Masters Super 300 in Bangkok on Wednesday. Earlier, Indian women’s doubles pairing of Simran Singh and Ritika Thaker made a first-round exit, losing in straight games to China’s Liu Sheng Shu and Zhang Shu Xian. …
Former junior World No. 1 Tasnim Mir and the talented Priyanshu Rajawat registered contrasting victories to clinch the women’s and men’s singles titles respectively at the India Chhattisgarh International Challenge badminton tournament in Raipur. Tasnim, who upset many seeded players in the earlier rounds, got the better of sixth seed Samiya Farooqui 14-21, 21-17, 21-11 in the final while Rajawat …