Badminton
BadmintonSindhu Returns to World No. 6 as Sen Faces a Test of Consistency2026-11-10PV Sindhu’s Hylo Open final lasted 38 minutes. She beat Line Kjaersfeldt 21-1...
Badminton21-12, 21-16: The Scoreline That Ended Thailand's 64-Year Wait2026-11-07Two full seconds passed after the match-point shuttle landed before Kunlavut...
BadmintonTanvi Patri's Silver: Not a Final Scoreline, but a Question Hidden in Court Geometry2026-11-06Standing beside the court after the 54-minute semifinal, I listened to Tanvi...
BadmintonSindhu Climbs Two Places to World No. 6, Lakshya Sen Rises to 13th: Mixed Signals Behind the Rankings2026-11-04In the latest BWF world rankings, the two leading Indian singles players have...
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Points Come From Tournaments; Players Come From Coaching ChainsLast season, a women's singles semifinal at an indoor court in Dhaka. Third...
The Script in the Margin of the Draw Sheet: India's Asian Games Badminton Path, Four Numbers and One Empty BoxIn August 2026 I was a 33-year-old economics graduate on the night desk of a...
Sindhu Returns to World No. 6 as Sen Faces a Test of ConsistencyPV Sindhu’s Hylo Open final lasted 38 minutes. She beat Line Kjaersfeldt 21-1...
21-12, 21-16: The Scoreline That Ended Thailand's 64-Year WaitTwo full seconds passed after the match-point shuttle landed before Kunlavut...
2026 Asian Games: India's Badminton Failure Is Actually a Structural SignalThe scoreline makes it look like India's badminton campaign fell apart. But I...
Tanvi Patri's Silver: Not a Final Scoreline, but a Question Hidden in Court GeometryStanding beside the court after the 54-minute semifinal, I listened to Tanvi...
Asian Games 2026 Badminton: The Real Threat to India's Men's Team Isn't Bangladesh — It's JapanScanning the Day-1 medal roundup, one number snagged. India's men's badminton...
The Creak Behind India's Clean Sweep of Kazakhstan3-0. Three matches, three straight games. The scoreline suggests India's...
Sindhu Climbs Two Places to World No. 6, Lakshya Sen Rises to 13th: Mixed Signals Behind the RankingsIn the latest BWF world rankings, the two leading Indian singles players have...
Not the Ranking Arithmetic: Sen's Straight-Game Final Win Over Christie Is the Real SignalI open the ranking table and the first thing I see is a number: PV Sindhu...
The Testimony of Empty Fields: Where Chattogram's Badminton Records Never Wrote the ScoreLast month a results sheet from a district-level badminton tournament in...
The Script in the Margin of the Draw Sheet: India's Asian Games Badminton Path, Four Numbers and One Empty BoxIn August 2026 I was a 33-year-old economics graduate on the night desk of a...
Sindhu Returns to World No. 6 as Sen Faces a Test of ConsistencyPV Sindhu’s Hylo Open final lasted 38 minutes. She beat Line Kjaersfeldt 21-1...
21-12, 21-16: The Scoreline That Ended Thailand's 64-Year WaitTwo full seconds passed after the match-point shuttle landed before Kunlavut...
2026 Asian Games: India's Badminton Failure Is Actually a Structural SignalThe scoreline makes it look like India's badminton campaign fell apart. But I...
Tanvi Patri's Silver: Not a Final Scoreline, but a Question Hidden in Court GeometryStanding beside the court after the 54-minute semifinal, I listened to Tanvi...
Asian Games 2026 Badminton: The Real Threat to India's Men's Team Isn't Bangladesh — It's JapanScanning the Day-1 medal roundup, one number snagged. India's men's badminton...
The Creak Behind India's Clean Sweep of Kazakhstan3-0. Three matches, three straight games. The scoreline suggests India's...
Sindhu Climbs Two Places to World No. 6, Lakshya Sen Rises to 13th: Mixed Signals Behind the RankingsIn the latest BWF world rankings, the two leading Indian singles players have...
Not the Ranking Arithmetic: Sen's Straight-Game Final Win Over Christie Is the Real SignalI open the ranking table and the first thing I see is a number: PV Sindhu...
The Testimony of Empty Fields: Where Chattogram's Badminton Records Never Wrote the ScoreLast month a results sheet from a district-level badminton tournament in...