Saina Nehwal to skip Asian Games trials on account of well being factors

Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Saina Nehwal isn’t going to be collaborating on the nationwide badminton picks trials for the upcoming Asian Games on account of well being factors.

The Badminton Association of India (BAI) will doubtless be conducting the trial from May 4 to 7 at Jwala Gutta Academy of Excellence in Telangana to pick the employees for the distinguished match, which be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8.

“Saina Nehwal will not be participating as she has some fitness issues. Also the men’s pair of Kushal Raj and Prakash Raj has also withdrawn from the trials,” BAI secretary Sanjay Mishra instructed PTI.

“However, rest of the players who were invited for the trials will be competing this week for the spots.” Saina last carried out on the Orleans Masters. Battling accidents for pretty some time, the earlier world major had skipped the trials for Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships in January. She had moreover missed the trials for the Commonwealth Games last yr.

BAI had instantly chosen double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu (World No. 11), HS Prannoy (world no. 9), males’s pairing of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (World No. 6) and girls’s combination of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (world no. 19) for the Asian Games “based on their placing in the BWF Top 20 ranking list as on April 18”.

The nationwide federation had come out with a list of avid gamers for the Asian Games alternative trials on April 22, setting April 28 as a result of the deadline for affirmation.

World championships silver and bronze medallists Kidambi Srikanth (World No. 23) and Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen (World No. 24), Orleans Masters Super 300 winner Priyanshu Rajawat, nationwide champion Mithun Manjunath and Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth are among the many many 9 males’s singles avid gamers, who ought to fight it out throughout the trials.

In girls’s singles, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha, Unnati Hooda will doubtless be among the many many women’s singles shuttlers present throughout the trials. As many as three avid gamers will doubtless be chosen for males’s singles and girls’s singles, whereas two mixed doubles pair and one males’s doubles and one girls’s doubles pair will doubtless be picked from the trials.

List of Players for Asian Games 2023 alternative trials: Men’s Singles: Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Priyanshu Rajawat, Mithun Manjunath, Sai Praneeth, Maisnam Meiraba, Bharat Raghav, Ansal Yadav, Siddhant Gupta Women’s Singles: Aakrshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha, Aditi Bhat, Unnati Hooda, Alisha Naik, Shriyanshi Valishetty, Anupama Upadhyay Men’s Doubles: MR Arjun/Dhruv Kapila, Krishna Prasad/Vishuvardhan, Suraj Goala/Pruthvi Roy, Nithin HV/Sai Pratheek.

Women’s Doubles: Ashwini Bhat/Shikha Gautham, Tanisha Crasto/Ashwini Ponnappa, Radhika Sharma/Tanvi Sharma Mixed Doubles: Rohan Kapoor/Sikki Reddy, Sai Pratheek/Tanisha Crasto, Hariharan/Varshini, Hemagendra Babu/Kanika Kanwal.