‘Leaving on my own terms’: Saina Nehwal retires after two-year injury break
Saina Nehwal revealed that she chose not to make a formal retirement announcement at the time, believing her absence from competition spoke for itself.
Saina Nehwal revealed that she chose not to make a formal retirement announcement at the time, believing her absence from competition spoke for itself.
Nehwal has announced her separation from fellow shuttler and husband Parupalli Kashyap.
President Droupadi Murmu’s natural love for sports and games was seen when she played badminton with Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal at the Badminton Court in Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Wednesday.
London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal held the previous record for the most weeks as world No. 1 for an Indian badminton player. She climbed up to the No. 1 rank in the badminton rankings on August 18, 2015, and remained there till October 21, 2015, for nine weeks.
World Champion took to X to share a picture with her mother with the beautiful monument in the backdrop, captioning the post, "How marble-ous is the Taj Mahal?"
Sindhu crashed out of the China Open World Tour Super 1000 badminton tournament as she went down fighting to Thailand's Pornpawee Chochuwong.
The Spanish star player had lost to Tai in their last six matches. She even lost the first game in this particular final.
The gold medal winner will now play Japan’s Sayaka Takahashi on Saturday and a place in the finals of the tournament will be at stake.
Starting from where she left in the World Championship, the Olympic silver-medallist brought another one of her strong performances on the court to defeat the 20th ranked Chinese player.
2019 hasn't been a great year for the former World No 1. Ever since her comeback from injury, things haven't panned out the way she would have liked.
