Saina Nehwal. File.
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Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Saina Nehwal won’t be taking part on the nationwide badminton alternatives trials for the upcoming Asian Games due to fitness issues.
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) can be conducting the trial from May 4 to 7 at Jwala Gutta Academy of Excellence in Telangana to decide the crew for the celebrated event, which 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 Also the men’s pair of Kushal Raj and Prakash Raj has also withdrawn from the trials,” BAI secretary Sanjay Mishra advised PTI.
“However, rest of the players who were invited for the trials will be competing this week for the spots.” Saina final performed on the Orleans Masters. Battling accidents for fairly a while, the previous world primary had skipped the trials for Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships in January. She had additionally missed the trials for the Commonwealth Games final yr.
BAI had straight chosen double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu (World No. 11), HS Prannoy (world no. 9), males’s pairing of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (World No. 6) and girls’s mixture of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (world 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 come out with a listing of gamers for the Asian Games choice trials on April 22, setting April 28 because the deadline for affirmation.
World championships silver and bronze medallists 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 among the many 9 males’s singles gamers, who could have to struggle it out within the trials.
In ladies’s singles, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha, Unnati Hooda can be among the many ladies’s singles shuttlers current within the trials. As many as three gamers can be chosen for males’s singles and girls’s singles, whereas two combined doubles pair and one males’s doubles and one ladies’s doubles pair can be picked from the trials.
