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Orleans Masters 2023: Saina, Sameer, and Aakarshi ousted; Tanya, Mithun, Priyanshu advance
It was a mixed day for India in the USD 240,000 prize money BWF World Tour Super 300 event as Tanya Hemanth in women's singles and Mithun Manjunath in men's singles reached the second round, while Tasnim Mir, Aakarshi Kashyap (women's singles) and Sameer Verma lost in the first round while Priyanshu Rajawat lost to compatriot Kiran George 21-18, 21-13.
Orleans Masters 2023: Saina top Indian in contention; Satwik-Chirag too back in action
Saina, who has dropped to 31 in the BWF Rankings, is the highest-ranked Indian woman player in the fray as two-time Olympic medallist P.V Sindhu, who lost in the final of the Madrid Masters 2023 on Sunday, has decided to give the event a miss. Men's singles players Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy will also skip the BWF Super 300 tournament.
Saina Nehwal pulls out of All England Open 2023, fans react on social media
As per reports, the Olympic bronze medalist has been replaced by Singapore's Yeo Jia Min. Hours after the development, Saina shared her own photograph on the social media platform Koo App with one wide eye peeking through the fingers. On the post itself, one of her fans reacted to it and commented in a funny way.
French Open badminton: Saina Nehwal ousted, Satwik/Chirag win on bad day for Indians
The men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty was the only one to survive the opening round as Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto went down in the mixed doubles first round while the women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand too went down to the sixth-seeded Thai pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai.
BWF World Championships: Saina advances to pre-quarters; mixed day for India in doubles
She then got a walkover from sixth-seeded Nazomi Okuhara of Japan, who pulled out due to an injury, and stormed into the pre-quarterfinals in the women's singles. The 32-year-old Saina, who won a silver medal in the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta and a bronze in 2017 in Glasgow, on Tuesday, stormed past Cheung Ngan Yi of Hong Kong, quelling her challenge 21-19, 21-9 in 38 minutes.
Singapore Open: Sindhu, Prannoy, Saina advance to quarterfinals
World No 7 Sindhu came from a game down in her women's singles match to defeat world No 59 Thuy Linh Nguyen of Vietnam 19-21, 21-19, 21-18 in one hour and six minutes. Sindhu was caught off-guard by her lower-ranked opponent in the first game and was in a spot of bother, trailing 19-17 in the second game. However, she rallied to score four consecutive points and took the match into the decider.
Singapore Open: Sindhu, Prannoy, Saina enter second round; Srikanth suffers upset
Sindhu, seventh in the badminton world rankings, proved too strong for Belgium's world No 36 Lianne Tan and won the women's singles match 21-15, 21-11 in 29 minutes.
Saina, Sindhu start against Danish opponents in Indonesia Masters
Saina, who was not included in the Uber Cup squad as she did not participate in the trials conducted by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) in April, will open her Indonesia Masters campaign against Denmark's Line Hoejmark Kjaersfeldt in the first round. Saina is ranked 23rd in the world while her Danish opponent is 33rd.
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