Hyderabad Hunters won the opening match of the Vodafone Premier Badminton League 2017 at the expense of Chennai Smashers by virtue of a 4-3 score line at the Gachibowli Stadium in Hyderabad on New Year’s Day.
The second tie of the Vodafone Premier Badminton League 2017 saw Bengaluru Blasters locking horns with defending champions Delhi Acers at the Gachibowli Stadium in Hyderabad on New Year’s Day.
Viktor Axelsen (BEN) vs Jan O Jorgensen (DEL)
Pune: Champion cueist Pankaj Advani won the Indian National Snooker Championship with a 6-0 win over Pandurangaiah of Railways in a one-sided final on Thursday.
Apart from clinching his 29th national title overall, Advani broke several other records. He became the only Indian men’s cueist to be the holder of all national billiards and snooker titles at the same time – Billiards, 6-red Snooker and 15-red Snooker.
Thailand scored a thrilling upset over Japan to top Group C at the ROBOT Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2017 in Ho Chih Minh City yesterday.
Despite the loss, Japan were assured of a quarter-final place. Today’s quarter-finals will feature: Thailand versus India; Japan versus Indonesia; China versus Malaysia and Chinese Taipei versus Korea.
Chinese Taipei and India scored comfortable victories against strong opponents yesterday to get their campaigns off to a sound start at the ROBOT Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2017 in Ho Chih Minh City.
England held off a battling display from Sweden to top Group 2 at the 2017 European Mixed Team Championships yesterday in Lubin, Poland.
England will next meet Group 3 runners-up Netherlands in the quarter-finals, while Sweden face defending champions Denmark, top-placed team in Group 1. The other quarter-finals will see France against Russia and Germany against Poland.
World number one Mark Selby suffered a shock exit to 17-year-old Yan Bingtao in the third round of the Welsh Open.
Yan, ranked 66, beat Selby 4-1 in Thursday’s afternoon session, but lost 4-1 to Kurt Maflin in the fourth round.
The second season of Premier Badminton League (PBL) gets underway on New Year’s Day and it is sure to be an exciting affair with some of the best players in the world battling it out on badminton courts across India. We look at all the teams and players who will feature in the 2017 PBL season.
We are getting closer to the beginning of Season 2 and January 1, 2017 will see the resumption of old rivalries and the making of the new ones. Here are some awesome player rivalries to look forward to in the new season that will make the PBL all the more special.
PBL Season 2 is only a week away and it is not just all about the big names. Here are a few young, emerging Indian players who are definitely worth keeping an eye on in the tournament.
Sameer Verma, Hyderabad Hunters
