So from next year, four Super Series will be elevated to Slam status. It was the second time India had lost to Malaysia this year while the team was unable to beat Canada at last year’s Olympics as well. Jose Brasa expressed surprise at the removal of Roelant Oltmans. I am 100 per cent confident we will win the Asia Cup and I absolutely feel we can finish on the podi. And a Prince without ostentatious pomp … there was more to last week’s badminton World Championship than the action on court. Euro 2016 quarter-finalists Iceland bullied their way back into the game in the second half but lacked composure in the Finnish penalty area, wasting chance after chance. was withdrawn from the doubles tournament, where he was into the third round with fellow Italian Simone Bolelli. David John will deliver much better than Roelant Oltmans, says BP Govinda. We decide to like a player or not depending on how he moves his feet,” he adds. A ‘No clue’ drops their opinion of you as a worthy journo.