Ray WilkinsRay Wilkins
BadmintonPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: a 0-10 head-to-head and the real ceiling of a 31-year-oldThe 2026 Japan Open final ended in two games. PV Sindhu beat Akane Yamaguchi...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Badminton Draw: When a Compressed Schedule Becomes the Biggest ThreatThe main court of the Aichi-Nagoya arena at 6 AM on September 26 will have no...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: India's Quarter-Final Push Rides on Two Late-Game RhythmsAt 18-19 in the second game against Victor Lai, Kidambi Srikanth stood one...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Srikanth Ends Five-Year Wait, Satwik-Chirag Reach Quarter-Finals After 69 MinutesCopenhagen, a November evening. I kept the screen in dark mode, one earbud in...
BadmintonPV Sindhu at Asian Games 2026: Decoding the Five-Rival Map Through Head-to-Head Data"Every rally tells three stories: one of the camera, one of the technology, o...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Draw: When a Packed Schedule Decides Badminton FatesI still remember the moment the last slip of paper fell onto the table in...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Badminton Draw, the Fitness Equation and the Pairs That Need VerifyingOn the morning the draw was published, I sat alone in my apartment in Kuala...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Reading India's Three Quarter-Finalists Through the ScoreboardThe scoreboard read exactly the number I had written in my notebook: 11-15....
BadmintonPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: A 0-10 Head-to-Head and a Draw Nobody Has SeenAt 1:40 in the morning in Surabaya, I reopened the women's singles head-to-he...
BadmintonAn Se-young Wins 2026 Asian Games: The 21-9, the Four-Year Gap, and the Facts Still UnverifiedThere is a sound I have learned to recognise over many years sitting inside...
BadmintonRecounting India's Badminton Rhythm — When One Spearhead Could Not Carry the Whole Asian Games 2026 SkyRecounting India's Badminton Rhythm — When One Spearhead Could Not Carry the...
BadmintonPV Sindhu and the 2026 Asian Games: The Head-to-Head Matrix Tells a Different StoryI sat in my apartment in Copenhagen, sipping coffee that had gone cold long...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: PV Sindhu's Rivalry Matrix and the 0-10 Gap Against An Se-youngI rewatched the 2026 Japan Open final twice in a single evening. The first ti...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Badminton Draw: Reading the Byes, the Early Collisions, and the Gaps Nobody FilledMy ruled notebook has a dedicated page for every Asian Games since 2026. The...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Five Days in Nagoya and the Gaps Not Printed on the Badminton Draw SheetI was sitting in my office in Nagoya, less than an hour by train from the ven...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Two Wrong Names on the Badminton Draw Sheet and 5 Days Without Room to BreatheThere is a detail that does not match on the badminton draw sheet for the Asi...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Badminton Draw and the Fitness Trap of a Compressed ScheduleThe draw was released on Thursday in Aichi-Nagoya. On the sheet posted in the...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: The Indian Contingent's Quarter-Final Spreadsheet and the Limits of ComebacksOn November 21, 2026, at Shenzhen Bay Arena, I paused at the seventeenth data...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: India Through the Quarter-Finals — Srikanth, Satwik-Chirag, and the Depth of a Badminton NationThere was a moment in that 69-minute match that I rewatched four times, pausi...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Satwik-Chirag's Spatial Equation and Srikanth's Final CrackAt 17-17 in the deciding game, the shuttle crossed the net exactly 36 times...
BadmintonThe Game of Spaces: India's Comeback Story at the China Masters 2026Shenzhen, late 2026. On the courts of the China Masters, one of the most...
BadmintonFrom 11-15 to 21-18: Srikanth and India's tactical puzzle at China Masters 2026When the score was 11-15 in game one, and the opponent was a world No. 9, mos...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Indian Badminton Team Advances to Quarter-Finals, Kidambi Srikanth and Satwik-Chirag Display Impressive FormIn the hazy space enveloping the Chinese stadium, where the sound of the...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Badminton Draw: When a Compressed Schedule Becomes the Biggest ThreatThe main court of the Aichi-Nagoya arena at 6 AM on September 26 will have no...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: India's Quarter-Final Push Rides on Two Late-Game RhythmsAt 18-19 in the second game against Victor Lai, Kidambi Srikanth stood one...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Srikanth Ends Five-Year Wait, Satwik-Chirag Reach Quarter-Finals After 69 MinutesCopenhagen, a November evening. I kept the screen in dark mode, one earbud in...
BadmintonPV Sindhu at Asian Games 2026: Decoding the Five-Rival Map Through Head-to-Head Data"Every rally tells three stories: one of the camera, one of the technology, o...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Draw: When a Packed Schedule Decides Badminton FatesI still remember the moment the last slip of paper fell onto the table in...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Badminton Draw, the Fitness Equation and the Pairs That Need VerifyingOn the morning the draw was published, I sat alone in my apartment in Kuala...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Reading India's Three Quarter-Finalists Through the ScoreboardThe scoreboard read exactly the number I had written in my notebook: 11-15....
BadmintonPV Sindhu at the 2026 Asian Games: A 0-10 Head-to-Head and a Draw Nobody Has SeenAt 1:40 in the morning in Surabaya, I reopened the women's singles head-to-he...
BadmintonAn Se-young Wins 2026 Asian Games: The 21-9, the Four-Year Gap, and the Facts Still UnverifiedThere is a sound I have learned to recognise over many years sitting inside...
BadmintonRecounting India's Badminton Rhythm — When One Spearhead Could Not Carry the Whole Asian Games 2026 SkyRecounting India's Badminton Rhythm — When One Spearhead Could Not Carry the...
BadmintonPV Sindhu and the 2026 Asian Games: The Head-to-Head Matrix Tells a Different StoryI sat in my apartment in Copenhagen, sipping coffee that had gone cold long...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: PV Sindhu's Rivalry Matrix and the 0-10 Gap Against An Se-youngI rewatched the 2026 Japan Open final twice in a single evening. The first ti...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026 Badminton Draw: Reading the Byes, the Early Collisions, and the Gaps Nobody FilledMy ruled notebook has a dedicated page for every Asian Games since 2026. The...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Five Days in Nagoya and the Gaps Not Printed on the Badminton Draw SheetI was sitting in my office in Nagoya, less than an hour by train from the ven...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: Two Wrong Names on the Badminton Draw Sheet and 5 Days Without Room to BreatheThere is a detail that does not match on the badminton draw sheet for the Asi...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Badminton Draw and the Fitness Trap of a Compressed ScheduleThe draw was released on Thursday in Aichi-Nagoya. On the sheet posted in the...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: The Indian Contingent's Quarter-Final Spreadsheet and the Limits of ComebacksOn November 21, 2026, at Shenzhen Bay Arena, I paused at the seventeenth data...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: India Through the Quarter-Finals — Srikanth, Satwik-Chirag, and the Depth of a Badminton NationThere was a moment in that 69-minute match that I rewatched four times, pausi...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Satwik-Chirag's Spatial Equation and Srikanth's Final CrackAt 17-17 in the deciding game, the shuttle crossed the net exactly 36 times...
BadmintonThe Game of Spaces: India's Comeback Story at the China Masters 2026Shenzhen, late 2026. On the courts of the China Masters, one of the most...
BadmintonFrom 11-15 to 21-18: Srikanth and India's tactical puzzle at China Masters 2026When the score was 11-15 in game one, and the opponent was a world No. 9, mos...
BadmintonChina Masters 2026: Indian Badminton Team Advances to Quarter-Finals, Kidambi Srikanth and Satwik-Chirag Display Impressive FormIn the hazy space enveloping the Chinese stadium, where the sound of the...
