badminton

Badminton is a popular sport in India. It is the second most played sport in India after Cricket. The sport originated in Poona in India in the mid 18th century.

Indian "shuttler" Saina Nehwal was ranked second in the world in the year 2010. This is the most important achievement by any Indian shuttler, after Prakash Padukone and Pullela Gopichand, who both won the All England Open in 1980 and 2001 respectively. She is also the lone Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal when she won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics.

India hosts the India Open annual badminton tournament since 1981 which is currently a BWF Super Series event. It regularly attracts top players from around the world.

[edit]Notable players

Current players

1. Saina Nehwal
2. Parupalli Kashyap
3. Chetan Anand
4. P.V. Sindhu
5. Jwala Gutta
6. Valiyaveetil Diju
7. Ashwini Ponnappa
8. Ajay Jayaram
9. Sourabh Varma

Retired players

1. Prakash Padukone
2. Pullela Gopichand

WORLD BADMITON CHAMPIONSHIP  -----


the first Indian ever to win the junior Asian badminton championship girls’ title in Korea recently? [A]P.V.Sindhu





 World No. 4 badminton player Saina Nehwal on 21 October 2012 won the Denmark Open Super Series Premier tournament by defeating the German badminton player Juliane Schenk 





Saina Nehwal conquers Thailand open Grand prix gold
Badminton Tournament Saina Nehwal defeated Ratchanok Inthanon of Thailand to win the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold title held in Bangkok, Thailand.





Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, who is recently in news is a Badminton player
Badminton player Recently Pusarla Venkata Sindhu defeated the 2012 London
Olympics gold medallist Li Xuerui in the on going China Masters Super Series tournament




Saina Nehwal wins the Swiss Open Badminton
The Third seeded India’s shuttle queen Saina Nehwal wons the women’s singles final of the Swiss
Open Badminton tournament in Basel, Switzerland by defeating Shixian Wang of China.




76th senior national badminton championship: Results
 Saurav Verma and P V Sindhu have won the men’s and women’s titles in the 76th senior national badminton championship.
 Verma downed his fighting team-mate and second seed Sai Praneeth 21-19, 21-19, while ninth seed Sindhu shocked favourite and second seed Neha Pandit with an overwhelming 21-9-21-14 win in the finals played at KBA courts.
 76th senior national badminton championship was organized at Bangalore.


















international

Danish legend Baminton Player, Peter Gade  retired from international badminton after his three-game defeat against compatriot Jan Ø. Jørgensen of Denmark.