The Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand retained the women's doubles crown but Kidambi Srikanth's hopes of snapping an eight-year title drought went up in smoke.
Kidambi Srikanth and women's doubles winners Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand notched up contrasting wins to progress to the men's and women's doubles finals of the Syed Modi International badminton tournament.
Top seed Unnati Hooda and senior shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy registered comfortable wins to lead a host of Indians into the second round of the Syed Modi International Super 300 tournament in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Former champion Kidambi Srikanth, Olympians Nozomi Okuhara and HS Prannoy along with a strong international field will headline the Syed Modi India International Badminton Championship.
Lakshya Sen stunned fifth seed Christo Popov of France in straight games to enter the men's singles pre-quarterfinals at the USD 475,000 Hylo Open Super 500 tournament
Asian Games men's doubles champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have withdrawn.
India's Kidambi Srikanth lost to Japan's Kenta Nishimoto 21-19, 14-21, 18-21 in the semifinal of the Canada Open Super 300 badminton tournament in Calgary.
India's Kidambi Srikanth continued his impressive run to enter the men's singles semifinals with a straight-game win over top seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei at the Canada Open.
Three Indian shuttlers produced dominant displays to move into the quarterfinals at the ongoing Canada Open 2025.
Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the men's singles second round with a thrilling three-game win over compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat.