Tag: Korea Open

Srikanth, seeded fifth, started the match well and led for most of the first game but the world No. 8 Cristie flipped the script right at the end to take the lead.

Seoul: Indian star shuttler P.V. Sindhu defeated reigning world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the women’s singles final of the Korea Open Superseries here on Sunday. Rio Olympics silver medallist Sindhu won 22-20, 11-21, 21-18 in an hour and 22 minutes at the SK Handball Stadium. Okuhara had conquered Sindhu in the World Championships […]

Incheon: Indian shuttler B. Sai Praneeth made an early exit from the ongoing Korea Open Super 500 tournament after he was forced to retire midway in his first-round match against Anders Antonsen of Denmark on Wednesday. Praneeth had lost the first game 9-21 and was trailing 7-11 in the second when he chose to retire […]

Incheon: World champion and ace India shuttler PV Sindhu crashed out in the first round of the Korea Open while Saina Nehwal was forced to retire here on Wednesday. In the men’s singles, B. Sai Praneeth made an early exit from the tournament while Parupalli Kashyap was the lone Indian to survive in the competition. […]

Incheon (S.Korea): Indian shuttler Parupalli Kashyap on Thursday advanced to the quarter-finals of the ongoing Korea Open badminton tournament after registering a hard-fought win over Malaysia’s Liew Daren. Kashyap, who is the only Indian left in the fray, defeated Daren 21-17, 11-21, 21-12 in a match that lasted almost an hour. The 33-year-old will now […]

Incheon: Shuttler Parupalli Kashyap on Saturday bowed out of the Korea Open after suffering a straight-games defeat in the semi-finals of the men’s single event against World No. 1 Kento Momota of Japan. Kashyap, who was the only Indian left in the tournament after all the star shuttlers made early-round exits, lost 13-21, 15-21 in […]