‘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?"
Rankireddy and Shetty were the lone medal hope after almost everyone from the Indian contingent bowed out in the opening rounds of Fuzhou China Open.
The Indian contingent have fared quite badly in the ongoing Fuzhou China Open and with Thursday's string of defeats the medal hope seems well and over.
Eighth-seed Saina lost to World No. 22 Cai 9-21, 12-21 in just 24 minutes to bow out of the competition.
Top seed in the women's singles category, 29-year-old Saina will start her campaign against Germany's Fabienne Deprez.
On Friday night, newly crowned World Champion Sindhu lost to World No 1 Tai Tzu Ying 21-16, 24-26, 21-17 in a fiercely-fought match which lasted for an hour and 15 minutes.
