‘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?"
Owing to their inconsistent outings in 2019, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth are placed at the 22nd and 23rd spots in BWF's Race to Tokyo rankings.
Fifth-seeded Sindhu rallied from one game down to beat Okhori 14-21, 21-15, 21-11 to maintain her unbeaten streak against Aya Okhori.
Pullela Gopichand in the book's chapter titled 'Bitter Rivalry' revealed how miserable he felt when Saina Nehwal decided to join Prakash Padukone's academy.
World No 11 Saina Nehwal lost to the 2016 Rio Olympics gold medalist Carolina Marin 21-7, 21-7 to end Indian contingent's any hope of a medal.
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal defeated eight-seed Young 25-23, 21-12 in a match that lasted for 39 minutes to make it to the quarter-finals.
