Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 29: SAI Training Centre Jammu’s shuttler Krishika Mahajan shined in All India Badminton Rankings and becomes the first girl from J&K to get a direct entry into the upcoming Yonex-sunrise 45th Junior National Badminton Championship to be held at Odisha from December 19 to 24. Krishika Mahajan is first girl from entire J&K to have honour of direct entry in girls single event on the basis of her performance in the recently concluded North Zone […]
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Panchali Adikari a shuttler par excellence Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
Panchali Janodya Adikari, a grade eleven student of Mahamaya Girls College, Kandy is an outstanding badminton player who started playing badminton at the tender age of six years under the coaching of R.S.Dahanayake. At first she studied at Gothami Vidyalaya,Kandy from Grade One onwards and in the Year 2017 she was admitted to Mahamaya Girls School to pursue higher studies as well as badminton her pet sport. At Mahamaya Girls College she was coached by R.L.Lasantha, a reputed badminton coach.
In June 2018 ,Panchali was selected by Sri Lanka Badminton Association to follow a training course in badminton at Prakash Padukone Academy, Bangalore for three weeks for the under 15 age category. After this training course she did extremely well to win the Under 15 Singles title at the Junior Nationals and to win the National Badminton Tournament held at Lumbini Vidyalaya and Royal College Sports