Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto successfully defended the women’s doubles title at Guwahati Masters, a BWF Tour Super 100 tournament, on Sunday. The top-seeded Indian pair of Ashwini and Tanisha defeated China’s Li Hua Zhou and Wang Zi Meng 21-18, 21-12 in 43 minutes in the final to win the title for the second year in a row. READ | …
Unlike most of his peers, Sathish Kumar Karunakaran has had a quiet start to his badminton career. “We decided to give him holistic training, make him a matured player before sending him for international tournaments,” says Sathish’s coach and former India international Ajit Wijetilekk. This year, the Tamil Nadu shuttler has been in great form, reaching the Maldives International final …
Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto reached third final in as many events with a straight-games win in the Odisha Masters semifinal on Saturday. Third-seeded pair of Ashwini and Tanisha, who finished runner-up at Syed Modi International before winning Guwahati Masters last week, defeated the Indonesian duo of Arlya Nabila Thesa Munggaran and Agnia Sri Rahayu 21-17, 21-13 in 37 minutes. …
