‘This country is a joke’: HS Prannoy slams Arjuna Award selection
After being ignored last year for the same award, Prannoy had even questioned the selection criteria.
After being ignored last year for the same award, Prannoy had even questioned the selection criteria.
World number six Sindhu had a dream run at the World Championships in Basel, Switzerland, winning the title last year, but she made early exits in the rest of the season.
Japan's Kanta Tsuneyama, who was facing Srikanth for the first time, defeated the sixth-seeded Indian 21-14, 21-19 in just 37 minutes.
With the win, Srikanth has extended his dominance over Vincent, having an 11-3 head-to-head record. The win comes as a morale booster for the 26-year-old who has struggled for form since reaching the final of the India Open in March.
Saina and Sameer are both scheduled to play Gwangju Korea Masters Super 300 tournament next week.
Indian shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma lost their respective men's singles quarter-final matches to bow out of the Hong Kong Open here on Friday.
Saina had also lost to the 2017 World Champion during the team event at the Asian Games in August.
Indian shuttler Sameer Verma dished out a clinical performance to outwit former world no 2 Jan O Jorgensen and clinch…
It was the first time that the Indian duo was entering the quarterfinals of a Super Series event since they teamed up 10 months ago.
Sindhu had achieved a career-best ranking of world no 2 for about two months in the later half of the season.
