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Know Your Sports Star | Leander Paes | India At Olympics Lets Start with some quick facts - He has won Bronze medal for India in 1996 Olympics 54 Men's Doubles titles in his career and 8 out of those are Grand Slam titles 10 Mixed doubles Grand Slam titles  Partnered with more than 125 tennis players in doubles and mixed doubles category World no 1 junior champion in Mens' singles His name is Leander Paes, living legend of Indian Tennis. Leander is Calcuttan, born to Dr Vace Paes  - the hockey player from Bronze medal winning Indian Hockey Team. He completed his training in Chennai and rose to fame as No 1 tennis player in singles junior category in 1990 after winning Wimbledon title. Leander has played in singles in his early career but received less success in the format. Few highlights of his achievements from singles category are winning the only ATP title of his life and a win against all time greats Pete Sampras by 6-3, 6-4. ...

Know Your Sports Star | Saina Nehwal | India At Olympics Hello, Namaste, Adab!! My name is Rajneekant and today I am going to talk about badminton sensation of India!! - Saina Nehwal!! Of-course you may have heard about her, seen her in news and advertisements frequently. She has won many international titles in badminton so far and has been credited for games' popularity in India. Saina was born to Harvir Singhji and Ushaji in Hisar of Haryana, both of them were badminton players representing Haryana. Harvir Singh ji was scientist in Agriculture University in Hisar and moved to Hyderabad in 1998. When her father Harvir Singhji met PSS Nani Prasad Rao, badminton coach from Andhra Pradesh spotted Saina's talent and convinced him to let Saina pursue her career in Badminton and asked her to join classes. Whole family had to travel 20 kms every day to stadium for Saina's training. Ultimately Singh sahab, shifted little closer to the stadium to avoid travel is...

Indian Olympic Sports Updates | Week June 24, 2017 Badminton Updates - Kidambi Srikanth won Indonesia Badminton Championship on June 18, 2017. He out-classed 47th ranked Kazumasa Sakai by 21-11, 21-19 in 37 mins to lift the Super Series title, making it his 3rd one. Srikanth was trailing behind by 6-11 points but then bounced back to make it equal by 13-13 and thats what put the pressure on Sakai, ultimately loosing match to Srikanth. Srikanth has won $75000 has prize money in tournament, also Badminton Association of India announced reward of Rs 5 Lakhs to Srikanth. HS Prannoy had lost to Kazumasa Sakai in semi-finals of Indonesia open, else it would have been an Indian vs Indian match in finals of Indonesia Open. Australian Super Series Badminton Updates - Parupalli Kashyap, Siril Verma and Ruthvika Gadde have made to main draw of Australian Open beating their opponents. They had to win 2 matches each in qualifying rounds to enter into main draw. In th...

Basic Rules of Badminton | India At Olympics Badminton can be played in Singles, Doubles, Mixed Doubles category. Singles where 2 players play the match, doubles where a pair of players play with other pair meaning 2 men play against 2 men or 2 women play against 2 women. Mixed Doubles, meaning 1 man and 1 woman play against 1 man and 1 woman. Before any match start, coin is tossed to decide who will serve first in first game and in subsequent games winner of previous game serves first. Badminton court is like what is shown here. Players stand in right service court when his/her score is even and in left side when score is odd. For Singles match, shuttle should not fall out of 'Side line for Singles' and for Doubles match, out of 'Side Line for Doubles' as marked in below picture. In Badminton match, unlike the sets in Tennis, there are games and each one is of 21 points, so whoever wins 21 points first wins that Game and not match. If you want to wi...

Indian Hockey, Badminton, Tennis, Chess, Athletics Updates - Week June 17, 2017 Indonesia Open Badminton Updates-  B Sai Praneeth has won Thailand Open Championship after Singapore open.. to become new poster boy of Indian Badminton!! Currently standing at no 15 in world men ranking!! Prime Minister Narendra Modi Congratulated him for his achievements! Sai Praneeth has suffered loss in 1st round of Indonesia Open loosing out by  21-13, 21-18. Saina Nehwal the bronze Olympic medalist winner for India, won first round heroically against Thailands’ Intanon by 17-21, 21-18, 21-12, but could not make it through 2nd round losing out by 5-21, 21-6, 16-21. Saina had could not reach the finals of Thailand Open as well. She would be participating in US open for first time.  Silver girl of Badminton PV Sindhu has had same fate as Saina in Indonesia open, won first round in straight 21-12, 21-19 and lost 2nd round by 21-15, 12-21, 18-21. Both the pla...