KUALA LUMPUR: Thai shuttler Ratchanok Intanon loves milk tea but she has to cut back on her favourite drink to keep playing at the highest level in the women’s singles. The 2013 world champion Ratchanok, who turned 30 in February, has to make sacrifices to maintain her fitness as she eyes more titles in an already...
PETALING JAYA: National squash ace S. Sivasangari’s challenge has ended in the World Championship. The 26-year-old, seeded seventh in the prestigious tournament, lost 3-11, 11-8, 4-11, 5-11 to fourth seed American Olivia Weaver in the quarter-finals at the Lakeshore Sport and Fitness in Chicago on Thursday (May 15). Weaver will face second seed Egyptian Nour El-Sherbini, while...
PETALING JAYA: Women’s doubles pair Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah let their racquets do the talking as they put aside the uncertainty over their contract situation to cruise into the second round of the Thailand Open. The top seeds were in complete control during their opening match at the Nimibutr Arena in Bangkok, sweeping aside India’s Rashmi Ganesh-Sania...
PETALING JAYA: Transitioning from coaching men’s singles shuttlers to mixed doubles is hard for some people but not Hazwan Jamaluddin. Hazwan was initially worried when he was moved from the junior men’s singles coaching role to the mixed doubles in the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) at the end of last year. The 40-year-old though has been...
PETALING JAYA: Women's doubles shuttlers Pearly Tan-M. Thinaah are likely to make a decision on their contract renewal with the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) by the end of next week. Pearly and Thinaah have not signed new contracts with BAM and there has been speculation that the pair might decide to leave the national body...
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris St Germain received a boost ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final second leg against Arsenal with Ousmane Dembele passed fit as the French champions look to turn growing squad cohesion into a place in the final. Dembele, who scored the only goal in last week’s 1-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, picked...
(Reuters) -Manuel Caceres, the drum-pounding Spanish football superfan known worldwide as "Manolo el del Bombo", died on Thursday at the age of 76, silencing the rhythmic heartbeat that had accompanied Spanish football for overfour decades. With his trademark oversized Basque beret and red number 12 shirt, Caceres became as much a fixture at Spanish matches as...
PETALING JAYA: Badminton singles coaching director Kenneth Jonassen hinted that a strong line-up will likely be fielded in Malaysia’s opening match against France in the Sudirman Cup today. Malaysia are considered favourites against a weakened French team in their opening Group C match in Xiamen, China, but Kenneth warned against underestimating the Europeans as getting off...
PETALING JAYA: Hard work always pays off, and for newly crowned Asian champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, it also came with a reward. Just a week after their historic victory in Ningbo, China, the men’s doubles pair had even more to smile about as they would be receiving RM20,000 through the National Sports Incentive...
PETALING JAYA: Shuttlers need to prove themselves before making big demands. Badminton legend Datuk Lee Chong Wei understands that national shuttlers want to earn their worth in monetary payments, but it should only be done if their results were there to back it up. “I’m not saying that our players can’t be asking for much in their...
