NEW DELHI: India’s main badminton gamers, together with two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu and international No. 9 HS Prannoy, are fretting over their visa software for the Sudirman Cup to be held in Suzhou, which might be but to be cleared by way of the Chinese embassy right here, TOI has discovered.
The 23 participants of the contingent, together with 15 gamers, are looking forward to their visas for the match, scheduled from May 14-21. The construction has come at a time when Chinese overseas minister, Qin Gang, is in India to wait the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) overseas ministers’ assembly in Goa.
The crew has been booked on a flight to Shanghai from Bengaluru on May 10. The gamers are these days staying in Hyderabad.
As in step with the Chinese visa regulations, the crew has to collect in Delhi for its necessary bodily biometric, a procedure which in most cases takes 24 hours. With the following two days
being a weekend Badminton Association of India (BAI) will successfully be left with simply in the future (Monday) to get the gamers’ visas processed.
“The tickets were booked. All different formalities to ship the crew to the match were finished. The crew is scheduled to fly from Bengaluru to Shanghai nevertheless it all appears to be like very tricky except the Chinese embassy grants us the visa,” a supply informed TOI.
Another supply claimed that the Chinese embassy did not reply to BAI’s request for the early processing of visas regardless of repeated follow-ups. It’s been discovered that the subject has been taken up with the Badminton World Federation (BWF) – the worldwide governing frame.
Interestingly, the Chinese contingent had confronted a identical scenario all through the India Open right here previous this 12 months. The visiting crew’s easy access into India was once made imaginable by way of BAI, which had reached out to the Indian embassy in Malaysia to make sure that the Chinese crew were given its visas on time. This regardless of China being underneath lockdown and their visa workplaces close.
India had certified for the Sudirman Cup after profitable bronze on the Badminton Asia combined crew championships in February. The guests had been regarded as favorites to boost the identify trophy, banking on their fresh performances in crew occasions.
Not best did India grow to be champions on the Thomas Cup closing 12 months, a primary for the rustic, the rustic’s badminton gamers once more created historical past by way of completing at the podium on the Asian combined crew tournament.
The 23 participants of the contingent, together with 15 gamers, are looking forward to their visas for the match, scheduled from May 14-21. The construction has come at a time when Chinese overseas minister, Qin Gang, is in India to wait the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) overseas ministers’ assembly in Goa.
The crew has been booked on a flight to Shanghai from Bengaluru on May 10. The gamers are these days staying in Hyderabad.
As in step with the Chinese visa regulations, the crew has to collect in Delhi for its necessary bodily biometric, a procedure which in most cases takes 24 hours. With the following two days
being a weekend Badminton Association of India (BAI) will successfully be left with simply in the future (Monday) to get the gamers’ visas processed.
“The tickets were booked. All different formalities to ship the crew to the match were finished. The crew is scheduled to fly from Bengaluru to Shanghai nevertheless it all appears to be like very tricky except the Chinese embassy grants us the visa,” a supply informed TOI.
Another supply claimed that the Chinese embassy did not reply to BAI’s request for the early processing of visas regardless of repeated follow-ups. It’s been discovered that the subject has been taken up with the Badminton World Federation (BWF) – the worldwide governing frame.
Interestingly, the Chinese contingent had confronted a identical scenario all through the India Open right here previous this 12 months. The visiting crew’s easy access into India was once made imaginable by way of BAI, which had reached out to the Indian embassy in Malaysia to make sure that the Chinese crew were given its visas on time. This regardless of China being underneath lockdown and their visa workplaces close.
India had certified for the Sudirman Cup after profitable bronze on the Badminton Asia combined crew championships in February. The guests had been regarded as favorites to boost the identify trophy, banking on their fresh performances in crew occasions.
Not best did India grow to be champions on the Thomas Cup closing 12 months, a primary for the rustic, the rustic’s badminton gamers once more created historical past by way of completing at the podium on the Asian combined crew tournament.