Indian badminton stalwart Ashwini Ponnappa on July 30 broke down in tears, announcing she played her last Olympics after she and her partner Tanisha Crasto suffered their third straight loss in the women's doubles competition of the Paris Games. "This will be my last, but Tanisha has a long way to go," said 34-year-old Ashwini, who was playing in her …
Asian champions Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy were in ruthless form on Friday as they dismissed He Ji Ting and Ren Xiang Yu in straight games to march into the men’s doubles semi-finals of the $1.3 million Malaysia Open. India's Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy The world No.2 pairing took just 35 minutes to brush aside the Chinese pair 21-11, …
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. …
Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto won their third title of the year in Guwahati, having earlier won the Abu Dhabi Masters Super 100 and Nantes International Challenge Indian women’s doubles pair of Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa on Sunday secured their second Super 100 title with a straight-game win over Chinese Taipei’s Sung Shuo Yun and Yu Chien Hui at …
India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto moved to the women’s doubles final while Priyanshu Rajawat squandered a one-game advantage to bow out in the last four stage of the Syed Modi International badminton tournament here on Saturday. Priyanshu flourished with his cross court shots but his net play was not as polished as he fell into a pool of errors …
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