Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Saina Nehwal might not be collaborating on the nationwide badminton variety trials for the impending Asian Games because of health problems. The Badminton Association of India (BAI) will probably be accomplishing the trial from May 4 to 7 at Jwala Gutta Academy of Excellence in Telangana to select the group for the celebrated match, which will probably be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8.
“Saina Nehwal will not be participating as she has some fitness issues. Also the men’s pair of Kushal Raj and Prakash Raj have also withdrawn from the trials,” BAI secretary Sanjay Mishra instructed PTI.
“However, the rest of the players who were invited for the trials will be competing this week for the spots.”
Saina closing performed on the Orleans Masters in April. Battling accidents for somewhat a while, the previous international primary had skipped the rigors for the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships in January. She had additionally overlooked the rigors for the Commonwealth Games closing yr.
BAI had at once decided on double Olympic medalist PV Sindhu (World No. 11), HS Prannoy (international no. 9), males’s pairing of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (World No. 6) and ladies’s aggregate of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (international no.19) for the Asian Games “based on their placing in the BWF Top 20 ranking list as on April 18”.
The nationwide federation had pop out with a listing of avid gamers for the Asian Games variety trials on April 22, environment April 28 because the cut-off date for affirmation.
World championships silver and bronze medalists Kidambi Srikanth (World No. 23) and Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen (World No. 24), Orleans Masters Super 300 winner Priyanshu Rajawat, nationwide champion Mithun Manjunath and Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth are some of the 9 males’s singles avid gamers, who should combat it out within the trials.
In ladies’s singles, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha, Unnati Hooda will probably be some of the ladies’s singles shuttlers provide within the trials.
As many as 3 avid gamers will probably be decided on for males’s singles and ladies’s singles, whilst two combined doubles pair and one males’s doubles and one ladies’s doubles pair will probably be picked from the rigors.
List of Players for Asian Games 2023 variety trials:
Men’s Singles: Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Priyanshu Rajawat, Mithun Manjunath, Sai Praneeth, Maisnam Meiraba, Bharat Raghav, Ansal Yadav, Siddhant Gupta
Women’s Singles: Aakrshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha, Aditi Bhat, Unnati Hooda, Alisha Naik, Shriyanshi Valishetty, Anupama Upadhyay
Men’s Doubles: MR Arjun/Dhruv Kapila, Krishna Prasad/Vishuvardhan, Suraj Goala/Pruthvi Roy, Nithin HV/Sai Pratheek.
Women’s Doubles: Ashwini Bhat/Shikha Gautham, Tanisha Crasto/Ashwini Ponnappa, Radhika Sharma/Tanvi Sharma Mixed Doubles: Rohan Kapoor/Sikki Reddy, Sai Pratheek/Tanisha Crasto, Hariharan/Varshini, Hemagendra Babu/Kanika Kanwal.