13-year-old Tanvi Patri of Odisha, and a trainee of our Academy, won the Under-15 Girls Singles Title at Badminton Asia U17 & U15 Junior Championships 2024 which was held at Chengdu, China from 20 th to 25 th August 2024.
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Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic and CSR arm of Infosys, and the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA) successfully concluded their debut, sports conclave at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence on 31st March 2023.
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11 year old Tanvi Patri of Odisha wins her maiden Under-13 girls singles at the 34th Under-13 National Badminton Championships, held at Lucknow on 23rd November 2022.
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PPBA proud ward, 20-year-old Lakshya Sen created history when he bagged a bronze medal at the World Badminton Championship held at Spain in December 2021.
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Top-seeded Meiraba, a trainee of Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, won the Bangladesh Junior International Series title by beating Malaysian Ken Yong Ong in straight games 21-14, 21-18
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Young Shuttler Ansh Negi became the Runner up at his maiden International event in the Under 13 Boys’ Singles event of Singapore Youth International Series
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Lakshya Sen claimed his fourth title in three months, bagging the Scottish Open with a thrilling win over Brazil’s Ygor Coelho in the men’s singles summit clash in Glasgow on Sunday, 24th November.
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Lakshya Sen clinched his maiden BWF World Tour title by winning the Dutch Open men's singles title after beating Yusuke Onodera of Japan in the finals on Sunday.
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Top seeded Meiraba Luwang won the Boys’ Singles event of the Wongcheon Korea Junior Internatonal Challenge which concluded on 3rdNovember at Miryang, Gyeongnam, Korea.
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Lakshya Sen clinched his maiden BWF World Tour title by winning the Dutch Open men's singles title after beating Yusuke Onodera of Japan in the finals on Sunday.
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Lakshya Sen won the Belgian International Title by beating the 2nd Seeded Victor Svendsen of Denmark in the finals. Lakshya was at his best as he notched up a comfortable 21-14, 21-15 win over Svendsen in the title clash that lasted for 34 minutes.
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Commits INR 16 crores over five years to scout and nurture the best badminton talent from across the country
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Former Junior World No 1 Lakshya Sen went down fighting in the men’s singles badminton final at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires on Friday, losing 15-21, 19-21 against China’s Shifeng Li. He became only the second Indian to win a Silver Medal in Youth Olympics after H S Prannoy who had won in the inaugural edition of the Games at Singapore in 2010.
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19 year old Siddharth Pratap Singh won his first Senior title at an international event i.e. the Swedish Open 2018 in Lund on Sunday, beating Mads Christophersen of Denmark 21-15, 21-11 in 33 minutes. Siddharth had to save a match in the second game in the first round of the tournament against Patrick Bjerregaard of Denmark to remain in contention. He beat Patrick 21-23, 23-21, 21-15; Sergey Sirant of Russia 21-15, 21-9; Hermansah of Indonesia 21-18,21-16 and Felix Burestedt of Sweden 21-19, 21-18 in the semi finals.
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Rahul Bharadwaj's giant killing run came to an end in the finals of the Yonex Sunrise Indian Junior International Grand Prix which concluded in Pune yesterday. Rahul capitulated to the top seed and Junior World No. 2 Kunlavut Vitidsarn rather meekly in straight games 16-21, 11-21.
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In the under 17 Boys Singles, top seeded Meiraba Luwang also lifted his second title of the season by beating Iman Sonawal of Haryana in straight sets 21-17, 21-12 in the finals. Rahul Bharadwaj and Meiraba Luwang won the Boys Singles Under-19 and Under-17 Titles respectively in the recently concluded 16th Union Bank All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament. Rahul beat his Academy counterpart Aryamann Tandon in straight sets 21-12, 21-14 in the Finals to lift his 2nd consecutive Under-19 Boys Singles Title.
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Lakshya Sen, 15, is walking off the court after a three-hour-long training session at the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in Bengaluru. He heads straight to his chair on the sidelines, on which his kit bag and water bottle is kept. Seated on the chair next to his is Padukone himself. Together with Sen’s coach and academy co-founder Vimal Kumar, Padukone proceeds to engage the teenager in some technical talk about his game.
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Lakshya Sen did one better than his performance at the Dutch Junior by winning the silver medal in Under-19 Men's singles at the German Junior Championships which concluded yesterday in Berlin. Lakshya, the top seed, lost to the second seeded Lee Chia Hao of Chinese Taipei in the final 21-19; 21-11; 21-18 which went on for 54 Minutes. earlier, in the semifinals, Lakshya avenged the defeat he suffered last week at the hands of Chen Chi Ting of ChineseTaipei in Dutch Junior by beating
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World Junior No. 1 Lakshya Sen fell at the penultimate hurdle in the Dutch Junior Championships which concluded in Haarlem, Netherlands yesterday. Lakshya lost to eventual winner Chen Chi Ting of Chinese Taipei 19-15, 15-21. He had a fairly easy time reaching the semis with wins over Mehmet Capar of Turkey 21-9, 21-7, Chong King Lim of Malaysia 21-10, 21-13, Takuma Obayashi of Japan 21-18, 21-15 amd Fpmg Hau Sim of Malaysia 21-19, 21-15.
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Fifteen year old Lakshya Sen of Uttarakhand became the youngest so far to reach the finals of the Senior National Badminton Championship. Lakshya, trainee of the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy since 2009, bid to eclipse his mentor Prakash Padukone’s feat in winning the Senior National Badminton Championships at the age of 16 was foiled by Saurav Verma who beat him 21-13, 21-12.
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PPBA covered itself with glory at the 41st Junior Nationals which concluded in Udupi on the 17th December 2016. As they had done throughout the year, while the boys dominated the Singles events, the girls excelled in the paired events during the Championships. Lakshya Sen, Under 17 singles National Champion in 2015, added the Under…
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14 year old Laa Tukum from Arunachal Pradesh, became the Under-15 National Champion at the 30th Sub Junior National Championships held at Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh which concluded on Sunday, 4th December. 4th Seeded Tukum beat Priyanshu Rajawat in a hard fought 3 setter in the Finals. Eventhough Tukum lost the first game 18-21 he came…
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15 year old Lakshya Sen from Almora, Uttarakhand, who is the current National Champion in the U17 category and one of India’s top juniors, annexed the Men’s Singles title in the SATS India International Challenge Badminton Championship which concluded at Gachibowli, Hyderabad on Sunday. Lakshya beat Zii Jia Lee of Malaysia 11-13, 11-3,11-6,11-6 in the…
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PPBA is happy to announce that the following players of the academy have been selected to participate in the “BWF World Junior Championships 2016” held at Bilbao, Spain from 2nd to 13th November 2016. Boys Girls Mithun M Lakshya Sen Gulshan Kumar Kartikey Bodhit Joshi Shikha Gautam Mahima Aggarwal Ashwani K. Bhat Mithula U.…
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16 year old Kiran George, a trainee of Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, did India proud by bagging the silver medal in the Under-17 Boys Singles category at the Badminton Asia Youth Championships which concluded at Kudus, Indonesia on Sunday. In the finals Kiran went down fighting to the top seeded Kunlavut Vitidasrn of Thailand 21-17,…
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The Malaysian Junior Boys Team bound for the World Junior Badminton Championships in Spain next month is on a 10 day visit to PPBA in Bangalore to spar with the junior players of the Academy.
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Meiraba Luwang of Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy won the Under-15 boys singles title in the Jaya Raya Yonex -Sunrise Grand-Prix Junior International
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15 year old Lakshya Sen of Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy won his maiden Men’s Singles title in the Dorjee Khandu All India Senior Ranking Badminton Tournament
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Winning 7 out of the 9 titles on offer, PPBA trainees dominated the All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament held at Ludlow Castle Complex in Delhi from 12th to 18th September 2016.
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Trainees of the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy continued their dominance by claiming 5 out of 9 events in the recently concluded All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament at Thirupati.
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