Indian Open, all badminton meets suspended until April 12
Other Sports | March 14, 2020 9:01 ISTBarring the ongoing All England Championships, all badminton events have suspended until April 12.
Barring the ongoing All England Championships, all badminton events have suspended until April 12.
BAI and the Badminton World Federation (BWF) had issued a joint statement on Wednesday, informing that the event will be held without any spectators due to the global novel coronavirus outbreak.
In a joint statement, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) and Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Wednesday said that the tournament will be held as per schedule.
PV Sindhu has five world championship medals to her name and is the first Indian singles badminton player to win an Olympic silver medal.
Many top players such as two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan, London bronze medallist Saina Nehwal and Rio Olympics quarterfinalist Kidambi Srikanth are racing against time to book their ticket to Tokyo.
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) had named a second-string women team for the tournament to be held from February 11 to 16 but a full-strength men's side which features World Championship bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth.
BWF and Chinese Badminton Association have considered all necessary health, safety and logistical risks and both parties believe it was sensible to postpone the tournament at this time.
After badminton star Saina Nehwal joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on January 29, her mother Usha Rani expressed her happiness.
PV Sindu suffered a 21-16, 16-21, 19-21 loss to Japan's Sayaka Takahashi in a thrilling Indonesia Masters quarterfinal match.
Men's no.1 shuttler Kento Momota, who faced injury in road accident in Malaysia, has now been discharged from the hospital.
World No.1 shuttler Kento Momota was injured in a road accident in Malaysia on Monday.
PV Sindhu lost to Akane Yamaguchi 21-18, 18-21, 8-21 in her first game of the Group A game of the BWF World Tour Finals.
PV Sindhu defeated Korea's Kim Ga Eun 21-15, 21-16 in the first round of the Hong Kong Open while HS Prannoy beat China's Huan Yu Xiang 21-17, 21-17.
Saina Nehwal lost to China's Cai Yan Yan 13-21, 20-22 in first round of Hong Kong Open.
Parupalli Kashyap lost 13-21, 19-21 to seventh seed Victor Axelson in a match that lasted 43 minutes at the Haixia Olympics Sports Center to crash out of the China Open.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty beat Japan's Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe 21-11 25-23 in the semi-finals of the French Open.
Beiwen Zhang scripted a comeback victory to knock PV Sindhu out of the Korea Open.
B. Sai Praneeth had lost the first game 9-21 and was trailing 7-11 in the second when he chose to retire because of injury.
Satwik and Chirag, ranked 15th in the world, ran out of steam after a decent start against their fourth-seeded opponents and went down 19-21 8-21 in the second-round match.
Saina Nehwal was defeated 10-21, 17-21 by Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan in the first round of China Open.
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