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The Indian duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy lost their semifinal match against the English pair of Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith in Dutch Open on Saturday.

Sydney Thunder on Friday announced the signing of all-rounder Lauren Smith to a two-year deal ahead of the upcoming Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) season.

Indian women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy advanced to the semi-finals of the ongoing Orleans Masters on Friday. Ponnappa and Ready outclassed England's pair of Chloe Birch and Lauren Smith 21-14, 21-18 in the quarter-finals clash that lasted for 41 minutes.

Bengaluru Raptors won their sixth consecutive game, a 4-2 win over Awadhe Warriors, to book their spot in the final of the Premier Badminton League at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium here on Friday.

Bengaluru Raptors took a giant step towards fulfilling their semifinal aspirations with a 5-0 thrashing of Mumbai Rockets in their Premier Badminton League clash at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor stadium on Tuesday.

A day after Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy knocked out world No. 13 Chinese Taipei pair, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa stunned world No. 12 pair of Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith of England in the China Open World Tour Super 1000 tournament at Changzhou on Wednesday.

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Former Commonwealth Games bronze medallist RMV Gurusaidutt notched up successive victories in the men's singles qualifiers to progress to the main draw of the $355,000 Singapore Open World Tour Super 500 on Tuesday.

Japanese shuttlers Kento Momota and Akane Yamaguchi are the top seeds in the men's and women's singles categories for the Denmark Open Super-750 event to be held in Odense from October 13 to 19.

India's women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy finished runners-up at the Welsh International Challenge badminton tournament after losing in straight games in the final here.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa drubbed Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja of Indonesia 21-18, 21-10 in the Swiss Open BWF Super-300 tournament in Basel, late on Tuesday.

Indian mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa started their campaign on a high as they outclassed second-seeded Indonesian pair of Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja in the first round of the Swiss Open 2021 on Tuesday.

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Taiwan's Chou Tien-chen and Denmark's Viktor Axelsen will meet in the final of the All England Championships after taking contrasting routes through their last-four matches on Saturday.

Indian shuttlers Sourabh Varma, Rahul Yadav and Rituparna Das advanced to the second round of the Belgian International Challenge after notching up straight-game wins on Thursday.

Parupalli Kashyap beat Jan Frohlich of Czech Republic 21-13 21-12 to move to the 2nd round of the Austrian International Badminton Challenge.

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal beat defending champion Nozomi Okuhara 21-15, 21-14. Saina improved to 6-1 against the inconsistent Japanese. They met in the first round because Okuhara was ranked 11th.

A year after losing a narrow final to the Hyderabad Hunters, Bengaluru Raptors edged the Mumbai Rockets 4-3 to win their first Premier Badminton League title at the packed Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, on Sunday.

Sai Praneeth sealed the semi-final berth for Bangalore Raptors as his win enabled the home team to defeat Chennai Smashers 3-2 in the Premier Badminton League on Thursday.

Ajay Jayaram and Parupalli Kashyap won to enter the singles second round, but it was curtains for the women's doubles and mixed doubles for the Indians.