India Super Series 2014

India Super Series 2014 Ends in Delhi With Lee Chong Wei’s Master-Class Act

 April 7, 2014   R K Gupta

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The annual Yonex-Sunrise India Open tournament has acquired an added importance after BWF upgraded its status from Grand Prix Gold to Super Series in 2011. For this reason, world’s top men and women badminton players make it a ritual to visit Delhi around this time every year. Except for some last minute withdrawals, the who’s […]

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Swiss Grand Prix

Chinese Supremacy in Basel as Swiss Grand Prix Gold Tournament Ends

 March 18, 2014   R K Gupta

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Badminton is one sport, which continues to have an Asian dominance and try as they may; Europeans and Americans have failed to match the shuttling skills of the Chinese, Koreans, Indonesians, Malaysians, Japanese and Indians. But among Asians too, it is difficult to match the over-zealous Chinese, who have an incredibly vast reserves of male […]

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Lee Chong Wei

Lee Chong Wei Displays His Superiority As All-England Badminton Championship Ends

 March 10, 2014   R K Gupta

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It is not for nothing that Lee Chong Wei is ranked as World’s No. 1 badminton player. In his 5th appearance on Sunday in the Men’s Singles Final of the 104th edition of All-England Badminton Championship in 10 years, Chong Wei performed brilliantly to record a 21-13, 21-18 straight sets victory over Chen Long, the […]

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All-England Badminton

Recalling Modern Era’s Two Greatest Shuttlers as All-England Badminton Begins in Birmingham

 March 6, 2014   R K Gupta

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Akin to Wimbledon Tennis, All-England Open Badminton Championship is the world’s most prestigious and the oldest badminton competition. It began in Guildford in 1898 and except for the years of two world wars; once during 1915-1919 and again during 1940-1946, All England tournament has been organized every year albeit at different venues. From 1957 to […]

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Yonex German Open 2014

Vintage Arvind Bhat Registers Unexpected Victory at Yonex German Open 2014.

 March 5, 2014   R K Gupta

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In one of the most stunning results in a BWF Grand Prix Gold event, concluded at the German city of Mulheim an der Ruhr on March 2, 2014, unseeded Arvind Bhat of India surprised the Badminton community in emerging as the most unlikely champion.  The 34-year old Bhat, who was once India’s national champion, played […]

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Indian Badminton Player

Indian Players And The World Badminton Scene In 2014

 January 28, 2014   R K Gupta

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The first major international badminton event of 2014 was the US $ 600,000 BWF Korea Open Super Series in Seoul, played during January 7-12, 2014. The Badminton Federation of India literally chose to ignore this event, with participation in only three fixtures. Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold winner Kidambi Srikanth and RMV Gurusaidutt played in […]

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Lee Chong Wei 2014 Maybank Malaysian Open

Marvelous Feats of Lee Chong Wei and Other Results of 2014 Maybank Malaysian Open

 January 24, 2014   R K Gupta

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The hype, hoop-la and glamour of the Australian Open, together with several international cricket fixtures took the sheen off some other major sporting events around the world. The news about the great feats of Malaysian badminton superstar Lee Chong Wei and the finals of the Maybank sponsored Malaysian Open BWF Super Series Premier was literally […]

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Lee Chong Wei -World Badminton Super Series 2014

Poor Show by Indian Shuttlers in Malaysian World Badminton Super Series 2014

 January 17, 2014   R K Gupta

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The star-studded $500,000 Maybank Malaysia sponsored World Badminton Super Series 2014 Open tournament got off to a rousing start on Wednesday at Kuala Lumpur’s Putra Stadium. World’s best badminton players were seen in action on the first two days and while some players have justified their world rankings, some others have already fallen by the way […]

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Macau Open Grand Prix-PV Sindhu

Sindhu’s Win at Macau Brings Glory to India and Gopichand Badminton Academy

 December 3, 2013   R K Gupta

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The best sports news, this week, came in the form of PV Sindhu winning her second Grand Prix Gold title of the year on Sunday at the Macau open. This was a big morale boosting victory for the 18-year-old Sindhu, winner of Malaysian Open in May 2013. In a nearly one-sided final in Macau, the […]

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Saina Nehwal

The Scintillating Saina Nehwal – Etching Her Signatures on World Badminton Canvas

 October 23, 2013   R K Gupta

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In a cricket-crazy nation like India, no one wants to know or hear about any other sports and that includes Badminton. You have got to be as good as Saina Nehwal for people to take notice. During the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi and Olympic Games 2012 in London, a large number of Indians watched […]

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