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Badminton<br />
Badminton, which is currently one of India’s<br />
most popular sports was played in front of<br />
a capacity crowd at the picturesque SAI-<br />
NEHU Centre in Shillong from the 6th to 10th<br />
February 2016. The 7 medal events in the sport<br />
included Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles,<br />
Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed<br />
Doubles, Men’s Team and Women’s Team<br />
events. A total of 76 athletes participated in the<br />
sport with 39 men and 37 women along with<br />
26 team officials.<br />
Hosts India, aced the competition winning<br />
Gold and Silver in all the individual categories<br />
along with Gold Medals in the team events<br />
with Sri Lanka winning both the silvers in<br />
team events and finishing second by virtue<br />
of the same. The event which featured top<br />
shuttlers like Kidamdi Srikanth, HS Prannoy,<br />
Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Poppana and P V<br />
Sindhu will however be remembered for the<br />
upset caused by 19 year old Ruthvika Shivani<br />
Gadde, who defeated the experienced India’s<br />
No. 2 and world No.12 PV Sindhu in a rip<br />
roaring finale in straight sets of the women’s<br />
singles event and announced her arrival on the<br />
big stage. This was a big upset considering<br />
she had never been able to even win a game<br />
against her experienced opponent in all her<br />
previous meetings.<br />
The event was ably supported by 4 ITOs, 49<br />
NTOs and Competition Director Shri Punnaiah<br />
Choudhary.<br />
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