India National Thread

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India’s most decorated Davis Cup player Leander Paes and the country’s foremost singles star Somdev Devvarman are both set to miss the second round of the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I tie against South Korea to be held in Chandigarh from July 15 to 17.

The tie, which comes a month prior to the Rio Olympics, will be played on grass — Paes’ favoured surface. But it is learnt that the 42-year-old, who is gunning for his seventh Olympic games, had made himself unavailable for Davis Cup duties at the start of year.

Paes last played for India in the dispiriting loss to the Czech Republic last September in the World Group playoff.

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3 hours ago, Sanjib said:

Just a query. What about the Seeding's in badminton, have they been already decided, or will be decided based on the ranking's in August? Australian Open and a couple of Grand Prix Gold events to come, Jwala/Ashwini currently are 9th I guess, if they can push to 8th position, it will really help them.

 

There shall be up to sixteen seeds in singles and four seeds in doubles of the five events in the Olympic Games Badminton competition.

 

The seeds for the 2016 Olympic Games Badminton competition shall be determined using the BWF ranking list of 21 July 2016

 

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2 hours ago, nitinsanker said:

 

There shall be up to sixteen seeds in singles and four seeds in doubles of the five events in the Olympic Games Badminton competition.

 

The seeds for the 2016 Olympic Games Badminton competition shall be determined using the BWF ranking list of 21 July 2016

 

That means Saina will face one of the top 4 seeds in QF. Too tough! 

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India leading 2 -1 against Laos...

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India now 3 -1 just in 49th minute....

leading 4 - 1 aggregate......

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India win 6 -1 finally a convincing victory...good for moral booster....win 7 - 1 in aggregate....

 

Hope we cross the 3rd round and get to go to Asia Cup 2019....

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The city of Lucknow will host the junior men''s hockey World Cup from December 8 to 18, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) announced today

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In an effort to scout players for the U-16 national team presently preparing for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, the All India Football Federation in collaboration with Sports Authority of India has launched a global scouting programme

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Sumit looses in Rd 1 of Singles of the Italy Challenger

Ramkumar looses in Rd 1 of the Singles and moves into QF of the doubles in the Moscow Challenger

Saketh  moves into the Rd 2 of the Singles and Jeevan moves into the QF of the doubles in the Aegon Challenger.

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9 hours ago, Sanjib said:

Just a query. What about the Seeding's in badminton, have they been already decided, or will be decided based on the ranking's in August? Australian Open and a couple of Grand Prix Gold events to come, Jwala/Ashwini currently are 9th I guess, if they can push to 8th position, it will really help them.

 

Badminton Seedings will be as per ranking of Jul 21.

 

However, getting to 8th ain't gonna help Jwala/Ashwini, Only 4 seeds in doubles.

 

http://www.bwfbadminton.org/file.aspx?id=634112&dl=1

 

Singles events are also currently scheduled to have only 13 seeds each (41 players in each singles event as per http://bwfbadminton.com/2016/05/25/trio-get-rio-2016-tripartite-places/ which equates to 13 seeds)