The sweetest song though gets played in silence when Nozomi Okuhara and PV Sindhu play the greatest tune in badminton. With McLaren’s Honda engine, Alonso has only finished three of the 10 races he started this season. There’s much mangling of pronunciations and names, before the Japanese hack spells out J W A L A and enquires about where she’s disappeared. Pliskova, runner-up at Flushing Meadows last year, would have lost her world number one ranking had . ear after her bruised knee gave her immense pain, the 27-year-old got going after promising to play ‘smart badminton. eep Narwal shines as Patna Pirates thrash Gujarat Fortunegiants to win third consecutive Pro Kabaddi titlePardeep Narwal’s heroics power Patna Pirates to third consecutive Pro Kabaddi titleGujarat Fortunegiants’ seven-match unbeaten run in Pro Kabaddi 2017 was snapped by Haryana Steelers on Saturday. The decision was taken after a three-day meeting of the Hockey India High Performance and Development Committee, which concluded today. In women’s singles, top seed Pattarasuda Chaiwan of Thailand ended eighth seed Purva BarveR. A particular company may have a strong presence in one of the markets but may like to have an association with a company that has strong foothold in another market. The strategy paid off as she broke Pliskova in her first two service games to take a 3-1 lead and captured the first set with an emphatic overhead smash.