New Delhi: Home-grown stars including Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap along with Malaysian World No.1 Lee Chong Wei have been given the top base price of $50,000 at the players’ auction of the Ind

Mumbai: She played second fiddle to senior partner Jwala Gutta during their successful combination, but shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa now has a role reversal to enact in her fledgling women's doubles par

“Is this what it takes to get your attention?” It’s the war cry of the Indian Badminton League (IBL).
For a tournament wholly inspired by the Indian Premier League (IPL), the IBL certainly seems to b

Olympic bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal crashed out of the Hong Kong Super Series after suffering a straight-game defeat to former world number one Wang Lin of China in the second round today.

The thir

She first burst into the limelight when she and her partner Jwala Gutta won the badminton women’s doubles gold at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2010. That was the first time in history an Ind

India’s first ever women’s doubles badminton gold at the Commonwealth Games (at New Delhi in 2010), India’s first World Championship medal in 20 years (At Birmingham in 2011) and now, the first ever I

Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa are as different as chalk and cheese. They don’t have anything in common but it’s a partnership that is set to work wonders in the years to come. While Jwala is aggre