Friday 27 March '09
This is one split that is struggling to be a seamless separation as Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurien go about the job of winning their doubles matches...Friday 27 March '09
India's men’s singles challenge imploded with every passing quarter of an hour on each of the three adjacent courts at the Gachibowli Stadium.Thursday
26 March '09Three days after the IPL was shifted overseas, foreign athletes have begun to cite the movement as evidence that India is unsafe for international sport....Thursday
26 March '09At the Gachibowli Stadium, the air-conditioning drift is raising quite a tempest.Thursday
26 March '09When it comes to China, dark horses bolt out of the screaming yellow, their preferred playing colour that swarms badminton courts.Wednesday
25 March '09It had been boiling to the brim for some time now, if those close to the once-inseparable doubles pair of Jwala Gutta-Shruti Kurien are to be believed.....Wednesday
25 March '09It was right after Hongyan Pi stepped out of China’s assembly-line system of producing shuttlers, and soon after she started playing under the Les Bleus banner.....Tuesday
24 March '09The Indian Open didn’t feature on world No 1 Lee Chong Wei’s itinerary at the beginning of the year, but the Malaysian’s participation in the March 24-28 event at Hyderabad appears to be an attempt at testing the waters.Tuesday
24 March '09The Indian Open didn’t feature on world No 1 Lee Chong Wei’s itinerary at the beginning of the year, but the Malaysian’s participation in the March 24-28 event.....Monday
23 March '09Distractions — even going by the name of Taufik Hidayat — will not deflect Saina Nehwal’s attention from the task at hand....Wednesday
18 March '09Trust Saina Nehwal to think up such out-of-the-box birthday resolutions for her 19th. People blow candles and get smeared with cake.....Saturday
14 March '09She's known for her barrage of power strokes from the back-court, but Saina Nehwal’s quarter-final against Chinese third seed Lu Lan...Tuesday
10 March '09Maybe, she and her game-buddies are not glamorous enough. Maybe it’s their loose playing-attire and conservative, comfortable round-necks. Maybe, it’s because basketball players don’t wear short skirts with smart slits.Friday
6 March '09Weijie Gong is not a name that flashes on the men’s singles top10 charts of badminton yet...Thursday
5 March '09It was a rough draw in the form of the seasoned world No 4 Hongyan Pi at the All England - the one tournament Saina Nehwal...Tuesday
3 March '09I had gone into the Sydney Olympics in 2000 with thorough planning and lost, which was a crushing feeling. So, I was very, very determined that I will never go into any tournament with planning.Saturday
28 February '09Saina Nehwal is under no illusion that her opponents — Hongyan Pi, particularly — went into hibernation in the last one month when badminton....Wednesday
25 February '09Not for the first time in her life, Nalini Bolinjkar was fighting — for the right to fight. At 64, the Shiv Chhatrapati award winner in carrom...Wednesday
18 February '09The great man after whom this Bandra school is named would have approved of the means employed by its sport teacher to get his wards tackle a foreign game.Tuesday
17 February '09The Valentines’ spirit is in the air and the Bombay Gymkhana is teeming with T-Shirts (in all possible sizes, the sport happily accommodates) on which are printed colossal red hearts with scribbled words alongside.Monday
9 February '09Ribbed by doubles partner Akshay Dewalkar, Jishnu Sanyal sheepishly confesses how girlfriends, serious relationships, etcetera, are really not his scene _ not just yet.Thursday
5 February '09Caged as they are within four walls of a squash court, one of which is see-through glass, squash players tend to bare their rage and throw tantrums in full view, often disagreeing with referee-calls.Sunday
1 February '09As an youngster — he’s still only 12 — Campion School student Porus Shroff had told his father Firdaus that since the Sr Shroff had played club cricket in England...Sunday
25 January '09World No 10, and Indian badminton’s poster girl Saina Nehwal was in Pune, the 18-year-old spoke to our correspondent about the year ahead. Excerpts:Sunday
25 January '09Riding the Saina wave, India now has five men and two women among the world’s top 50, our correspondent writes how Indian badminton could be on the cusp of a genuine breaktrhough
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