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Ashmita Chaliha and Aakarshi Kashyap advance to Senior National Badminton semifinals

With contrasting victories on Sunday, Ashmita Chaliha and Aakarshi Kashyap advanced to the semifinals of the Yonex Sunrise Senior National Badminton event. While Aakarshi beat Devika Sihag 13-21, 21-13, 21-13, Ashmita went in the last four after she overcame Isharani Baruah 21-10, 21-23, 21-16.
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newsbadminton3 months ago

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships | HS Prannoy and PV Sindhu to lead team, Aakarshi Kashyap and Lakshya Sen make cut

World No. 8 HS Prannoy and CWG gold medallist PV Sindhu would lead a strong Indian contingent for the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships to be played in Dubai from February 14-19. The BAI picked the top players directly and others by conducting trials for the rest of the squad.
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newsbadminton3 months ago

After conquering India, Aakarshi Kashyap limbering up for the world

Aakarshi Kashyap is a women's singles shuttler from India, who won the National Games 2022, a silver at the CWG this year, and won Bangladesh and Maldives International. Courtesy of her performances this year, she attained her career-best ranking of world no.32 and is looking good to better that.
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newsbadminton3 months ago

HS Prannoy achieves career-best ranking, to end year as world no.8

In the latest BWF rankings, star shuttler HS Prannoy has equaled his career-best spot of the world no.8. The Indian has had a solid 2022, where he won the prestigious Thomas Cup, along with a bronze at the Commonwealth Games, and a few other accolades, to round up the perfect year.
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newsbadminton4 months ago

Mithun Manjunath and Aakarshi Kashyap achieve career-high rankings post Bangladesh International win

Indian shuttlers continued to rise in the latest BWF rankings released on Tuesday, with the likes of Mithun Manjunath and Aakarshi Kashyap moving into the 30s, courtesy of their win at the Bangladesh International. Mostly not much movement happened in the current week as next season is due to start.
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newsbadminton6 months ago

National Games 2022 | B Sai Praneeth shows signs of return to form, wins men's singles gold medal

Top seed B Sai Praneeth of Telangana and second seed Aakarshi Kashyap of Chhattisgarh grabbed the Men’s and Women’s Singles badminton gold medals respectively in the 36th National Games on Thursday. Praneeth had to work hard for his 21-11, 12-21, 21-16 victory over Karnataka’s Mithun Manjunath.
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newsbadminton8 months ago

WATCH | Aakarshi Kashyap consoles her Pakistani opponent as latter retires due to injury

Who said the relationship between India and Pakistan had to constantly be tense? Aakarshi Kashyap of India consoled Mahoor Shahzad of Pakistan when the latter injured himself and had to withdraw from the women's singles round of 32 matches at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
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newsbadminton11 months ago

Thomas and Uber Cup 2022 | Indian women go down 0-3 to Thailand, crash out of competition

It was a heartbreak for the Indian fans as the women's team lost their quarterfinals tie 0-3 against Thailand in Thomas and Uber Cup on Thursday. It all started with double Olympic medalist PV Sindhu losing out to Ratchanok Intanon in three games, 21-18 17-21 12-21, which handed Thailand the lead.
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newsbadminton11 months ago

Thomas and Uber Cup 2022 | Indian women decimated 0-5 by Korea, finish second in group

In a poor outing for the Indian women at the Thomas and Uber Cup, the team lost 0-5 to Korea in their final league match on Wednesday. This means that India finishes second in their group behind Korea and still manage to qualify for the quarters, after their wins against Canada and USA, earlier.
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newsbadminton11 months ago

Thomas and Uber Cup 2022 | Indian women make it to quarters after 4-1 win over the USA

The Indian women's badminton team sealed its place in the quarterfinals of the Thomas & Uber Cup 2022, with a 4-1 win over the USA, in their Group D tie on Tuesday. Team India will take on Korea next, in the last league match, which will decide the toppers of the group, on Wednesday.
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