Carolina Marin became the second high-profile badminton player to pull out of the BWF World Championships 2021 after Japanese Kento Momota. Marin had also missed the Tokyo Olympics earlier in the year.
Momota lost to unseeded South Korean Heo Kwang-hee 15-21, 19-21
India Open is one of the last few badminton qualification events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Kento Momota had retired hurt during the French Open semifinals against compatriot Kanta Tsuneyama. He also pulled out from last week's BWF World Tour Finals 2021 in Bali, Indonesia.
Kento Momota fractured his eye socket in the crash then suffered through a bout of double vision in his return to training that had him fearing his career might be over
The two-time singles world champion was scheduled to compete in two Thailand Open series events
PV Sindhu, seeded third, beat Thailand’s Supanida Katethong 21-15, 21-19 in a 43-minute women's singles match. Sindhu will face Spain’s Clara Azurmendi next.
Momota was looking forward to make his international comeback in Bangkok, a year after sustaining a career-threatening injury
The world number one Kento Momota admitted his "spirit was almost broken" after the accident in January -- hours after he won the Malaysia Masters -- which...
Kento Momota -- hurt in a Malaysian car crash earlier this year -- was diagnosed with an orbital floor fracture after he said he suffered double vision during...
Kento Momota had been in Kuala Lumpur to take part in the Malaysia Masters badminton tournament
Parupalli Kashyap beat Denmark's Jan O Jorgensen 24-22, 21-8 to reach the semi-finals at the Korea Open badminton tournament on Friday.
PV Sindhu faces Nozomi Okuhara in the BWF Badminton World Championships final at around 4:30 PM IST on August 25, in Basel. Meanwhile, Kento Momoto and Anders...
B Sai Praneeth's attacking game couldn't dent the defence of an in-form Kento Momota as the Indian went down to the Japanese World No. 1 13-21, 8-21 in a...
