Star Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and B Sai Praneeth will lead the lads’s and girls’s groups within the Thomas and Uber Cup finals to be held in Denmark from October 9-17.
BAI on Sunday additionally introduced a 12-man Indian squad for the Sudirman Cup, which is scheduled to be held in Finland from 26 September to three October.
The 10-member ladies’s workforce, together with London Olympics bronze medalist Saina for the Thomas and Uber Cup, will function top-3 singles ranks from the trials, Malvika Bansod, Aditi Bhatt and Tasneem Mir.
The three doubles pairs included Tanisha Crasto and Rutuparna Panda, who claimed the highest spot within the trials. The 10-man males’s workforce additionally included 4 singles gamers and three doubles gamers.
Along with Praneeth and former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, the trials’ top-2 singles gamers Kiran George and Sameer Verma have made it to the squad. The nation’s prime males’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy have been chosen within the workforce together with the top-2 ranked pair from trials.
Players for the Thomas and Uber Cup and the Sudirman Cup have been chosen on the idea of their efficiency within the just lately concluded trials, other than computerized number of gamers/pairs who’re positioned within the top-20 on the earth rankings . .
Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu has not been included within the squad as she requested to not think about herself for choice after the Olympics is over.
In the Thomas Cup, the Indian workforce is positioned in Group C together with defending champions China, with Netherlands and Tahiti as the opposite two groups. Whereas within the Uber Cup, the ladies’s workforce is positioned in Group B together with Thailand, Spain and Scotland.
On the opposite hand, a 12-man squad for the Sudirman Cup, the top-ranked doubles pair of Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun from the trials has been stored within the squad together with Srikanth, Praneeth and the doubles pair of Satwiksairaj and Chirag.
In ladies, the top-2 singles pairs from Trials, Tanisha-Rutuparna and Ashwini Ponnappa-N Sikki Reddy have been chosen with the top-2 singles from Trials Bansod and Bhatt. In the biennial event, the Indian workforce will compete in Group A with defending champions China, Thailand and hosts Finland.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
