Keitaro NishikawaKeitaro Nishikawa
BadmintonIndia at the 2026 Asian Games: A 12-Year Individual Medal Streak Ends, and a New Generation KnocksThree days. Three days separated two versions of the same pair. In the men's...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: India Loses a 12-Year Streak, and the Gap Began in Game TwoIn game one, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty led 11-4 at the...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: PV Sindhu loses to Chen Yufei and the limits of an attacking gamePV Sindhu left the court after the Asian Games 2026 women's singles...
BadmintonAn Se-young Defends Her 2026 Asian Games Gold: 57 Matches, One Defeat, and Five Records Still Awaiting VerificationThe final shuttle landed in the left half of the court, roughly a hand's widt...
BadmintonIndia at Asian Games 2026: Men's Team Bronze Holds the Line as a 12-Year Individual Medal Streak EndsThe shuttle landed on the wooden floor of Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium...
BadmintonPV Sindhu at Hangzhou: the scoring curve, the left ankle, and the lost seeding protectionGame one ended 21-14 for PV Sindhu. The next two ended 15-21 and 14-21 for...
BadmintonAn Se-young's Title Record: The Seven-Point Run in Odense and the Data Still MissingThird game, 12-9 to Akane Yamaguchi, and An Se-young bends down, touches her...
BadmintonWhen Ashmita Chaliha Turned the Lens on BWF: Haze in Indonesia, Cold in India and Two Standards of Venue QualityLate at the Indonesia Masters Super 100 venue, Ashmita Chaliha won her second...
BadmintonFour quarter-finals, zero semi-finals: the structural gap in Indian badminton exposed at Aichi-NagoyaFirst game, and everything that came after In the opening game of the men's...
BadmintonAn Se-young Breaks the Badminton Title Record: Seven Straight Points in Game Three and the Ankle Nobody Counted12-9 for Akane Yamaguchi. Game three. The Denmark Open women's singles final ...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the tenth title: the real record sits at the ankle, not on the trophy tableGame three, 9-12. An Se-young retreats into the backhand corner, lifts the...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the Title Run: A Win Built on a Defensive WallAt minute 12 of the third game, An Se-young was trailing 9-12. She bent...
BadmintonAn Se-young breaks the title record: a win built on defence, not on smashesGame 1 of the Denmark Open final in Odense on 18 October slipped away in a...
BadmintonSeven points, one ankle, and the record of An Se-youngOdense, the evening of 18 October. I was sitting three rows from the court,...
BadmintonAn Se-young Breaks Title Record: A Win Built on Defence and a Sore AnkleOdense, 18 October 2026. In the third game of the Denmark Open final, An...
BadmintonThe Ankle in Odense: An Se-young's Record and the Price of a Defensive GameThe Ankle in Odense Game three, 12-9 to Akane Yamaguchi. An Se-young retreate...
BadmintonThuy Linh before Asian Games 20: the missing medal is backstage, not on courtThe Dân trí interview closed with a line that most readers would nod at and...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Why Indian Badminton Left Aichi-Nagoya Without an Individual Medal for the First Time Since 2026Aichi-Nagoya, a late-autumn afternoon. I sat in front of two screens: one...
BadmintonThree Matches in 18 Hours: Why PV Sindhu Collapsed 10-21 in the Asian Games 2026 Quarter-FinalThe hotel clock in Nagoya read 1:30 in the morning when PV Sindhu put her...
BadmintonSindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: The Five-Rival Head-to-Head Matrix and the Missing DrawTen meetings with An Se-young, zero wins for PV Sindhu. In the five-rival...
BadmintonPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: The 0-10 Head-to-Head and the Physical Gap Nobody Prices InOn September 15, 2026, the Badminton World Federation world rankings listed...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: India Lose 1-3 to Japan in Women's Badminton Team Quarter-Final — Two Winnable Games and a Depth GapI rewatched the opening game between PV Sindhu and Akane Yamaguchi four times...
BadmintonHuman Eyes, Machine Eyes, and the Boundary of Justice on the Badminton CourtIn the video analysis room of a television station in Tokyo, I replayed the...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the 21-9 Second Game: How a Gap Was Closed in AichiOn the stands of the arena in Aichi, the roar for Akane Yamaguchi had not yet...
BadmintonIndia at Ichinomiya: Four Quarterfinal Berths, No Individual Medal, and a Generational Handover Taking ShapeThere is a paradox compressed into four days of competition at the Ichinomiya...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the 21-9 Second Game: When Speed Meets Speed, the Empty Space Is the JudgeThe scoreboard read 21-17, 21-9. Two games, two entirely different stories. I...
BadmintonAshmita Chaliha questions BWF over playing conditions at Indonesia Masters Super 100The story: a top seed speaks out mid-tournament Ashmita Chaliha entered the...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: India's Badminton Report Card – lessons for Vietnamese sportsThe 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya have ended, and Indian badminton emerged...
BadmintonAll records set by An Se-young after winning gold at Asian Games 2026On September 29, 2026, in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, An Se-young defeated Akane...
BadmintonPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: The Five-Rival Head-to-Head Matrix and the Data GapThe final point of the 2026 Japan Open final landed when PV Sindhu had alread...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the Record File Behind the Asian Games 2026 Gold MedalOn 29 September 2026, the second game of the women's singles final at the Asi...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: PV Sindhu, Five Rivals and the Real Ceiling of a 30-Year-OldWhen PV Sindhu walked into the Ichinomiya City gymnasium, the cheering came i...
BadmintonPV Sindhu Loses to Chen Yufei at Asian Games 2026: When the Schedule Beat the Player Before the Opponent Did21-11, 18-21, 10-21. Those three lines are enough for many to conclude that P...
BadmintonAn Se-young and Five Records at Aichi-Nagoya: When Data Forces the Crowd Into SilenceOPENING: THE SECOND GAME AT AICHI-NAGOYA On September 29, 2026, at the...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the Five Records at Aichi-Nagoya 2026: When a Star Is Merely the Final Output of a SystemThere is a line I keep repeating to young editors in Guangzhou whenever they...
BadmintonAn Se-young and the 5 Absolute Records at Asian Games 2026: When Data Transcends All RumorsI once wrote that a player truly enters the pantheon of legends when their...
BadmintonThree Matches in 18 Hours and a 10-21 Third Game: Reading PV Sindhu's Quarter-Final Through DataWhen PV Sindhu walked onto court for the third game of the women's singles...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: 18 Hours and a 10-21 Decider — Reading PV Sindhu's Quarter-Final Through Data1:30 a.m. on the day of the women's singles quarter-finals at the 2026 Asian...
BadmintonIndian badminton's individual medal drought at Aichi-Nagoya: The broken mirror of a four-person programOn September 29, 2026, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty arrived in...
BadmintonWhen the Star Falls: India's Depth Problem at the 2026 Asian GamesWhen the changing room door of the India women's badminton team closed at the...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Quarter-final: Why India fell to Japan and the lesson for Vietnamese badmintonWhen PV Sindhu won the first game 23-21 against Akane Yamaguchi, after fighti...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Quarterfinal: India Lose 1-3 to Japan, but Match Data Tells a Different StoryThe women's team badminton quarterfinal at the 2026 Asian Games ended 1-3 in...
BadmintonChaliha Questions Indonesia Masters Super 100 Conditions: The Gap in BWF's Venue Standards SystemChaliha walked into the press room after her first-round win with a question...
BadmintonThuy Linh: The Asian Games Medal Equation and Vietnamese Badminton's Data GapThuy Linh: The Asian Games Medal Equation and Vietnamese Badminton's Data Gap...
BadmintonIndonesia Super 100: When Venue Standards Are Priced by Tournament TierThe first game ended 10-21. Seventeen minutes later, the second game ended...
BadmintonInside badminton's transfer window: release clauses, wage bills and the pressure of defending ranking pointsOn December 15, 2026, I opened an internal registration sheet for an S/J Leag...
