HarenHave Indian badminton players forgotten how to win titles?
While fans, funders and fame-managers assigned to market athletes, might desire year-round consistency and constantly reassuring headlines, even of streaky wins, what has truly been lost in 2024 is the…
Paris 2024 lessons for badminton officials: Look beyond organising tournaments
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) didn’t have much to do in matters of who represented the country at the Olympics. The Indian squad of seven – PV Sindhu, HS…
For Satwik-Chirag, Olympic loss is a good excuse to improve; but after rest, recharge & regrouping
There is inspiration everywhere in sport to bounce back from rock bottom. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were expected to play the Olympic finals this Sunday, but returned with not…
Satwik-Chirag’s coach Mathias Boe says his coaching days are over: ‘Spent too much in a badminton hall’ | Badminton News
Mathias Boe, coach of India’s men’s doubles badminton pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has announced his retirement from coaching. Boe, who has won silver in 2012 London Olympics confirmed…
Paris 2024 Olympics India badminton Live Updates: Satwik-Chirag in quarterfinal action; Lakshya vs Prannoy in Rd16; Sindhu faces Binjiao test
How Lakshya Sen clinically and charismatically destroyed Jonatan Christie Lakshya Sen was too busy getting good at badminton all these years to leaf through French philosophy. The Almora shuttler doesn’t…
Paris 2024: Scratchy start, but Satwik Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty get the job done
Tokyo taught Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty that well begun, was exactly and only half done. India’s doubles medal contenders had defeated the eventual Olympic champions, but hadn’t managed to…
What would Satwik-Chirag need to do to beat Chinese, Malaysians and Koreans to win badminton gold at Olympics? | Badminton News
The draw could be called fair, and fairly reasonable this time. For Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty had run into World Nos 1 and 3 at the Tokyo Olympics, and…
What Chirag Shetty-Satwikwsairaj Rankireddy don’t have that Paris Olympics gold contenders from China, Indonesia, Malaysia do | Badminton News
Chirag Shetty, a fairly well-read and soft-spoken doubles badminton player and mighty high-achieving too, recently lamented how his home state Maharashtra had stayed indifferent to India’s Thomas Cup title, badminton’s…
Indian Badminton’s Secret Seven: Freeze-frame moments and mannerisms of India’s Olympic bound shuttlers
There will be lots of mayhem and hopefully some medals too as Indian badminton launches one of its most intriguing challenges at the Paris Olympics in the coming month. In…
Quick Comment: Maharashtra govt needs to treat Chirag Shetty and Rohit Sharma equally | Badminton News
When Chirag Shetty returned home to Malad-Goregaon after winning badminton’s team World title, the Thomas Cup in 2022, there was no ticker-tape parade, no felicitation, no acknowledgement, no cash prizes.…