PETALING JAYA: Will Hendrawan of Indonesia remain as the coach for national No. 1 men singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia or will he head another department? Who else will be moved around? All these will be answered when the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) announce an internal shake-up in the coaching department soon. National coaching director Wong Choong Hann said …

SportOther Sport The chief executive of a leading Olympic sport has urged the government not to neglect minority sports in favour of football and cricket when discussing how to bring the action back. Saturday, 2nd May 2020, 6:00 am STANDARD BEARER: Huddersfield’s Marcus Ellis won a bronze medal in the men’s doubles at Rio and was on course for Tokyo. …

Ant and Dec got over their lockdown boredom on Friday with a civilised game of badminton in the street, leaving their social media followers confused. However, there was one big difference that meant they weren’t actually flouting social distancing rules – they WEREN’T in the same street because they no longer anywhere near each other. The Saturday Night Takeaway hosts …

PETALING JAYA: Aaron Chia has had enough of losing repeatedly to the same opponents. The 23-year-old doubles shuttler is using the break from training and competitions to analyse his opponents with an aim to outfox them in the future. National No. 1 Aaron and partner Soh Wooi Yik have never beaten the top five pairs in the world except for …

PETALING JAYA: It has been barely two years since the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) proposal to replace the existing badminton scoring format of 21×3 to 11×5 was shot down – but talk of the change has re-emerged. BWF president Poul-Erik Hoyer has not given up just yet on the idea that he was hoping to implement since taking over at …

Badminton Association of India (BAI) Sports Authority of India and Badminton Association of India held the first session of its Online Coach Development Programme. IANS Last Updated: April 20, 2020, 7:13 PM IST New Delhi: In accordance with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and the Sports Ministrys initiative to groom coaches as the world fights the COVID-19 …

PETALING JAYA: The nation’s top singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia is not losing sleep over the proposed scoring format of 11-point best-of-five games. The 22-year-old reckons that a good player must always be ready to embrace new challenges and not get stuck in their comfort zone. Zii Jia was responding to talks that Badminton World Federation (BWF) president Poul-Erik Hoyer …

With the court out of bounds and the racquet resting, some of India’s top shuttlers have gone back to studies to prepare for an online assessment test, which will be conducted by their employer, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). The badminton players have been asked to complete some course work and appear in the assessment test that involves topics such as …

Although qualifying series in some sporting events billed for the 2020 Summer Olympics were abruptly suspended due to the ravaging effect of the coronavirus, Nigerian badminton legends, Ephraim Jinkam and Grace Daniel are optimistic that the country will still qualify for the games which have been shifted to next year. After reviewing the situation on ground and health hazards should …

New Delhi: World Champion P V Sindhu was on Wednesday unveiled as one of the ambassadors for Badminton World Federation (BWF)’s ‘i am badminton’ awareness campaign. The campaign provides a platform for players to express their love and respect for badminton by advocating and committing to clean and honest play.   Sindhu, an Olympic silver medallist, said playing clean and …