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.
Cue Slam is a unique cue-sports league initiated by SportzLive and Billiards & Snooker Federation of India (BSFI). It is a first-of-its-kind franchise-based Indian league featuring top names and the most promising talent from the world of cue sports. The competing franchises will be based in different cities of India, with each team featuring a combination of international, Indian and junior (male/female) players will compete against each other during the competition to win the Cue Slam title. Each match-up will feature exciting and innovative games of Snooker & 9-Ball (Pool).
SportzLive has partnered with the Gopichand Badminton Academy with an initiative to develop a Gopichand Academy in Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida. The aim of the academy is to identify and nurture talent in this part of the country. The academy will appoint highly qualified Indian and international coaches and the trainees will have access to facilities like the gym, swimming pool and athletics track in the sports complex. The academy is scheduled to be operational early March 2017.
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.
