The newly topped Junior World No. 1 Anupama Upadhyay and Odisha Open Super 100 champion Unnati Hooda will lead India’s problem on the BWF World Junior Badminton Championships to be held in Santander, Spain from October 17-30.
The Indian group for the distinguished match, to be held after a niche of two years as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, was chosen after an intensive choice course of that included two All India Ranking Tournaments and a range take a look at in Raipur. Unnati had topped the ladies’ singles trial with S Rakshita Sri and Anupama ending second and third respectively. In-form Bharat Raghav, who received all-India rating titles in Goa and Panchkula and former junior world No. 1 Shankar Muthusamy, will probably be India’s finest guess within the boys’ singles class with Aayush Shetty finishing the line-up.
India has up to now received one gold, three silver and 5 bronze medals within the competitors, with Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lakshya Sen being the final Indian to face on the rostrum after profitable a bronze medal in 2018.
Badminton Association of India (BAI) secretary Sanjay Mishra mentioned, “The Junior World Championships are taking place after a long gap and with the emergence of new players, the team has been selected after extensive selection trials.” “We are confident that we will be challenging for medals in the mixed team championships and individual events,” he added. The occasion will start with a blended group occasion.
India can even subject two pairs every within the males’s and girls’s doubles and blended doubles occasions. The new mixture of Arsh Mohammad and Abhinav Thakur together with Nicholas Nathan Raj and Tushar Suveer will take over the boys’s doubles accountability. In girls’s doubles, Goa will characteristic All India Ranking Meet winners – Israni Barua and Devika Sihag – together with Tamil Nadu’s Shreya Balaji and Srinidhi N, who not too long ago helped their state win the South Zone U19 blended group title.
India group:
Boys Singles: Bharat Raghav, Shankar Muthusamy S, Aayush Shetty.
Girls Singles: Unnati Hooda, Rakshita Shree S, Anupama Upadhyay.
Boys Doubles: Arsh Mohammed/Abhinav Thakur, Nicholas Nathan Raj/Tushar Suveer.
Girls Couple: Israni Barua/Devika Sihag, Shreya Balaji/Srinidhi N.
Mixed doubles: Samarveer/Radhika Sharma, Vignesh Thineni/Sri Sai Sravya Lakkmaraju.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
