Indian badminton crew together with Saina Nehwal leaves for Thailand, PV Sindhu to fly from London

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu
The Indian badminton crew, together with Olympic hopefuls Saina Nehwal, B Sai Praneeth and Kidambi Srikanth, on Sunday left for Thailand to compete in back-to-back BWF World Tour Super 1000 occasions.

While Srikanth had participated within the Denmark Super 750 in October, for the remainder of the squad it is going to be first occasion in practically 10 months, after the COVID-19 pandemic had shutdown all tournaments globally.

Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu is about to fly out of London on Sunday to play her first event because the coronavirus-induced break. She will attain Bangkok through Doha.

Apart from Denmark Open, SaarLorLux Super 100 was the one different occasion to be held final yr because the BWF was compelled to droop the calender after the completion of the All England Championships in March.

All eyes are actually on the 2 Super 1000 occasions — Yonex Thailand Open (January 12-17) and Toyota Thailand Open (January 19-24) because the world’s finest returns to motion following a protracted break.

The crew additionally consists of Olympic-bound males’s pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, besdies doubles exponents Ashwini Ponappa and N Sikki Reddy. “After a long wait we get back on court soon at Thailand Open!!! excited much,” an image of the squad, posted by Satwiksairaj on instagram, learn.

H S Prannoy, Parupalli Kashyap, Sameer Verma, Dhruv Kapila, Manu Attri had been amongst others who left for Bangkok from Hyderabad through Dubai on Saturday. “First tournament after a long time… looking forward to the tournament… Thailand Open 2021,” Kashyap wrote together with an image of him and spouse Saina.

The crew was additionally accompanied by singles overseas coaches Agus Dwi Santoso and Park Tae Sang and doubles coach Dwi Kristiawan together with different help workers.