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When her father was promoted and transferred from Haryana to Hyderabad, [23] [25] she took up badminton at the age of eight to express herself, as she did not know the local language well enough to socialise with other kids. [23] Her parents played badminton for a number of years. [23] Her mother, Usha Rani, was a state level badminton player ...
Her deal is one of the biggest in world badminton. [ 151 ] [ 152 ] She would reportedly get ₹ 40 crore (US$4.8 million) as sponsorship while the rest of the money would be for equipment. This was Li-Ning's second stint with Sindhu, who was with them for two years in 2014–2015 for a sum of ₹ 1.25 crore (equivalent to ₹ 2.0 crore or US ...
In the finals, in intense three games he defeated Derek Wong of Singapore 21–14, 11–21, 21–19 and thus won a historic gold medal for India. [26] The gold medal in men's singles came after a long wait of 32 years, allowing Kashyap to see his name written amongst two legends of Indian Badminton who were also former gold medalists in the ...
The region has multiple badminton academies and coaching facilities. The Badminton Association of India (BAI) is the national governing body of badminton in India. It organises multiple national tournaments. In 2022, the Indian Badminton team won for the first time in the Thomas Cup, which is a badminton multinational tournament. [124]
One player is the "shepherd", and all but one of the players, known as "lambs" or "goats", form a chain behind the shepherd by grabbing each other's waists. The lambs are required to remain in this chain formation. The last player (the "tiger") has to try to capture the lambs by getting around the shepherd, who is allowed to move around.
In one variation of elbow tag, when a mouse links their elbow with one of the pitchers, the pitcher who disconnects from the pairing becomes a cat, and the previous cat becomes a mouse. [ 47 ] The same game is known as 'standing kho-kho' in South Asia, a variation of the Indian tag variant kho-kho . [ 48 ]
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [28] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
Saina is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports film directed by Amole Gupte and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Sujay Jairaj and Rashesh Shah under the banner of T-Series and Front Foot Pictures. Based on the life of badminton player Saina Nehwal, the film stars Parineeti Chopra as Nehwal. [3] [4]