BAI to Conduct Selection Trials for Asian Games Squad from May 4-7

The 2021 World Championship medallists Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen will face off towards their younger challengers on the choice trials for the upcoming Asian Games to be held on the Jwala Gutta Academy in Hyderabad from May 4-7, 2023, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) introduced on Wednesday.

The Badminton Association of India has been conducting choice trials for main workforce championships since final 12 months with top-20 ranked gamers within the BWF world rating being picked immediately.

The Asian Games in Hangzhou, China to be performed from September 23-October 8, 2023 may have separate workforce championships for women and men adopted by particular person occasions by which India can have a most of two entries per occasion.

Nine males’s singles gamers and eight girls’s singles gamers have entered the trials for three spots every whereas there are 4 entries every in males’s and blended doubles and three in girls’s doubles.

“The selectors have proposed to choose one pair every for males’s and girls’s doubles and two blended doubles combos by way of a round-robin event format to resolve the ultimate standings,” the BAI said in a media release.

Selection Trials format:

Men’s and women’s singles players will be divided into two groups in Stage 1 with the top two players in each group going to Stage 2. The four players will once again face-off in a league format and the result of Stage 2 for players competing against each other for the second time will be considered for the final standings.

For the doubles events, there will be only one stage with all pairs playing round-robin matches to decide the final standings.

The selected players will join HS Prannoy, former world champion PV Sindhu, reigning Asian Champions Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and the women’s doubles combination of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly.

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