As many as three out of eight icon players - Mithun Manjunath, Prakash Raj and Sai Prateek fetched their maximum cap price of Rs 3.5 lakh each in the auction held for the inaugural edition of the Grand Prix Badminton League (GPBL) to be held .
As many as 200 players from Karnataka will go under the hammer as teams mentored by the likes of PV Sindhu, K Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth pick their squads through the auction for the inaugural edition of the Grand Prix Badminton League (GPBL) .
Express News Service
CHENNAI: The year 2021 has been a good one for 17-year-old S Sankar Muthusamy. The budding shuttler bagged a medal at the Uganda International Badminton Tournament, and recently won his maiden international title in the junior White Nights Badminton Series at Gatchina in Russia. In the all-Indian Under- 19 boys singles final, Sankar beat Saneeth Dayanand from Shivamoga 21-10, 21-13.
The final lasted for 35 minutes in which Sankar halted the giant-killing run of the 18-year-old Karnataka shuttler. Sankar gave a sterling performance to clinch this title. “I am pleased to get a gold medal in the international circuit in my very first tournament after this lockdown. Playing a tournament after four months was pleasing.