Sindhu shall be eager on performing properly in the match.
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Double Olympic medallist P. V. Sindhu will make a come again to aggressive circuit as she joins World No. 8 H.S. Prannoy to lead a powerful Indian challenge in the Badminton Asia Team Championships slated to be held in Shah Alam, Malaysia, from February 13 to 19.
The prestigious crew occasion shall be vital for Indian shuttlers to achieve helpful qualification factors in the Race to Paris 2024-Olympic qualification.
The 16-year-old senior nationwide champion Anmol Kharb, Badminton Asia Junior Championships medallist Tanvi Sharma and Ashmita Chaliha will present backup to the former world champion in the ladies’s singles class.
“With the Olympic games a few months away, this is one of the most important events for our shuttlers considering the Paris Olympic qualification. We have rewarded the senior national champions as well, with call-up for team India. These are very strong Indian sides, who are capable of going all the way and I am sure they will script history at the prestigious team event”, stated Badminton Association of India General Secretary Sanjay Mishra.
Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand, who helped the Indian crew clinch a historic bronze medal final yr at the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2023 in Dubai, will contest in ladies’s doubles. The remaining two pairs embrace rising duo and Guwahati Masters 2023 champions Ashwini Ponnappa-Tanisha Crasto alongside reigning senior nationwide champions Priya Devi Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra.
On the different hand, considered one of the most constant shuttlers on tour, Prannoy, who additionally received his first BWF World Championships medal and BWF World Tour title at Malaysia Masters 2023, will lead the males’s crew. Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lakshya Sen, former World No. 1 Okay. Srikanth and just lately topped senior nationwide champion Chirag Sen will accompany him in crew India’s s pursuit for glory.
Having received six titles in 2023, together with gold medals at Asian Games and Asian Championships, together with Indonesia Open 2023 a Super 1000 occasion, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty will shoulder the males’s doubles duty. The former World No. 1 duo may have the help of spectacular senior nationwide champion pair Suraj Goala-Pruthvi Roy and Dhruv Kapila-M R Arjun.
The Indian males had received bronze medals in the 2016 and 2018 editions of the crew occasion.
The groups:
Men: H.S. Prannoy , Lakshya Sen, Okay. Srikanth, Chirag Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila, M.R. Arjun, Suraj Goala and Pruthvi Roy.
Women: P.V. Sindhu, Anmol Kharb, Tanvi Sharma, Ashmita Chaliha, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, Ashwini Ponnappa, Tanisha Crasto, Priya Devi Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra.
