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17 Jan 2020 | 4:21 PMMelbourne, Jan 17 (UNI) India's Prajnesh Gunneswaran failed to make the main draw of the Australian Open men's singles event after losing to Latvia's Ernests Gulbis in the final round of the qualifiers, here on Friday.
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16 Jan 2020 | 7:10 PMJakarta, Jan 16 (UNI) Indian campaign at Indonesia Masters 2020 came to an end after the ouster of World Champion PV Sindhu in the second round of the tournament, here on Thursday.
Sindhu took the lead by winning the first set but then lost the next two to go down 21-16, 16-21, 19-21 against Japan's Sayaka Takahashi in a closely-fought contest which lasted for an hour and six minutes.
This is the third time that Sindhu lost to the Japanese in their seven meetings. Sindhu was on a three-match streak against Takahashi and had last lost to Japanese in 2015 Korea Open.
After this win, Takahashi has now reduced the head-to-head gap to 3-4. The fifth seed Sindhu had earlier defeated Japan's Aya Ohori by 14-21 21-15 21-11 in the first round.
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12 Jan 2020 | 9:12 PMNew Delhi, Jan 12 (UNI) Indian tennis star Sania Mirza will pair with Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine against Oksana Kalashnikova of Georgia and Miyu Kato of Japan in the opener at the Hobart International on Tuesday.
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10 Jan 2020 | 4:12 PMKuala Lumpur, Jan 10 (UNI) Ace Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal lost their respective quarter-final matches and crashed out of Malaysia Masters Super 500 badminton tournament, here on Friday.
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09 Jan 2020 | 4:24 PMKuala Lumpur, Jan 9 (UNI) Ace Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu produced clinical performances to enter the women's singles quarterfinals of the Malaysia Masters Super 500 badminton tournament, here on Thursday.
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08 Jan 2020 | 6:58 PMKuala Lumpur, Jan 8 (UNI) Indian women star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal had an easy first round win against their opponents to enter the round two of the Malaysia Masters Badminton while B Sai Praneeth and Kidambi Srikanth crashed out in the men's singles here on Wednesday.
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07 Jan 2020 | 5:34 PMKuala Lumpur, Jan 7 (UNI) Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen failed to make to the main draw of the Malaysia Masters Super 500 tournament, as he lost against Denmark's Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus in the men's singles qualifiers, here on Tuesday.
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03 Jan 2020 | 4:09 PMNew Delhi, Jan 3 (UNI) India's national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, who has produced two Olympic medallists - Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu, expressed that his team is hoping for better performances with some good preparations before the quadrennial event.
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01 Jan 2020 | 5:10 PMNew Delhi, Jan 1 (UNI) South Asian Games gold medallist Ashmita Chaliha expressed that all aspiring badminton players in Assam should join the Assam Badminton Academy in Guwahati.
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29 Dec 2019 | 9:26 PMPanaji, Dec 29 (UNI) Goa Table Tennis Association has invited Manika Batra, the current Commonwealth champion and the winner of “Breakthrough Award by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)” for her excellent performance in the world, as Chief Guest at State Table Tennis Finals to be played at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium near the city on December 30, 2019.
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27 Dec 2019 | 7:34 PMNew Delhi, Dec 27 (UNI) Arjuna awardee and national table tennis champion Monalisa Baruah Mehta on Friday lauded the Khelo India Youth Games initiative by the sports ministry.
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