India National Badminton team represents India in international team badminton and is governed by the Badminton Association of India. Badminton Association of India (BAI) is the governing body Badminton in India. Based in Lucknow, BAI is an association registered under the societies act. It was formed in 1934 and has been holding national-level tournaments in India since 1936. BAI has 28 state members that conduct Badminton tournaments and have a 2x voting power compared to the 8 affiliate members, who do not conduct tournaments and have a single vote each in the association.
Thomas Cup (World Group)
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Uber Cup (World Group)
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Sudirman Cup
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- 2012 - 1 Bronze
FORMER PLAYER OF BADMINTON -
Prakash Padukone
Prakash Padukone (born June 10, 1955) is a former badminton player from Karnataka, India. Among other championships, he won the All England Championship and became the first Indian to do so. Prakash was awarded the Padma Shri in 1982. He, along with Geet Sethi, have co-founded Olympic Gold Quest which is a Foundation for the Promotion of Sports in India. Prakash Padukone's life story has been chronicled in the biography 'Touch Play', by Dev S. Sukumar. The book is only the second biography of any badminton player
Pullela Gopichand
He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001 defeating Chen Hong of China in the finals by 15-12,15-6. He became the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone, who won it in 1980.
He was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2001.But later on, his game was affected due to injuries and his ranking dropped to 126 in the year 2003. In 2005, he was awarded the Padma Shri.
In 2012, former Indian Badminton player Sanjay Sharma & Shachi Sharma have written a biography on him titled " Pullela Gopichand: The World Beneath His Feet." Now, he runs the Gopichand Badminton Academy. He is now a very renowned coach who received the Dronacharya Award and is the main force
behind the emergence of Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap.
INDIA PRESENT & BRONZE MEDAL WINNER
SAINA NEHWAL
Saina won her second career Super Series title by winning the Singapore Open title on 20 June 2010. She completed a hat-trick in the same year by winning the Indonesian Open on 27 June 2010. This win resulted in her rise to 3rd ranking and subsequently to No. 2. Later in the same year she also won Hong Kong Super Series on 12 December 2010. After experiencing a poor 2011 season, Saina become the first Indian singles player to reach the summit stage of year-ending Super Series Finals defeating two-time All England champion and former World No. 1 Tine Baun in the semi-finals, a feat she repeated in the quarterfinals in the London Olympics 2012. Though she lost in the semi-finals of London Olympics 2012 to Wang Yihan, she secured the bronze medal against Wang Xin. After Xin won the first game 21–18, Xin had to walk out of the match due to aggravation of her knee injury, thus making Saina the winner.
In 2012, journalist and former NDTV editor T. S. Sudhir wrote a biography on Saina.
She is India’s highest-paid non-cricketing sportsperson as on September 2012.
Singles performance timeline
| Tournament | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | SR | W–L | Win % | Best | |||||||||
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| BWF Super Series | |||||||||||||||||||
 Korea Open Super Series Premier |
A | A | 2R | A | 2R | QF | 0/3 | 4-3 | QF (2012) | ||||||||||
 Malaysia Open Super Series Premier |
1R | QF | QF | A | SF | SF(2012) | |||||||||||||
 All England Super Series Premier |
2R | 1R | 1R | SF | QF | QF | 0/4 | SF(2010) | |||||||||||
 India Super Series |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1R | 2R | 0/2 | 2R(2012) | |||||||||||
 Indonesia Super Series Premier |
A | 2R | W | W | F | W | 3/4 | W(2009,2010,2012) | |||||||||||
 Singapore Super Series |
A | SF | QF | W | 2R | A | 1/3 | W(2010) | |||||||||||
 China Masters Super Series |
A | SF | A | A | QF | A | 0/2 | SF(2008) | |||||||||||
 Japan Open Super Series |
A | 1R | 1R | A | SF | A | 0/3 | SF(2011) | |||||||||||
 Denmark Open Super Series Premier |
1R | A | QF | A | 2R | W | 1/4 | W(2012) | |||||||||||
 French Super Series |
A | A | QF | A | 2R | F | 0/3 | F(2012) | |||||||||||
| China Open Super Series Premier |
1R | 1R | 2R | A | 1R | 0/4 | 2R(2009) | ||||||||||||
 Hong Kong Super Series |
1R | QF | 1R | W | QF | 1/5 | W(2010) | ||||||||||||
| BWF Super Series Masters Finals | SF | A | F | F(2011) | |||||||||||||||
| BWF Super Series Masters Finals | QF | QF | QF | ||||||||||||||||
| BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix | |||||||||||||||||||
 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold |
1R | 2R | QF | A | W | W | 2/5 | W(2011,2012) | |||||||||||
 Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold |
1R | QF | A | QF | W | W(2012) | |||||||||||||
| Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold |
N/A | N/A | QF | F | F(2011) | ||||||||||||||
| India Open Grand Prix Gold |
N/A | 2R | W | W | 1R | 2/4 | W(2009,2010) | ||||||||||||
| Year-end Ranking | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
(SOURCE- WIKIPEDIA & YOUTUBE)
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