Badminton News: Commonwealth Games champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will miss the Thailand Open Super 300 badminton tournament after Satwik has not fully recovered from the hip injury he recently suffered.
Satwik was injured during the India Open Super 750 tournament earlier in the month and was forced to retire midway through the tournament in New Delhi.
“Not healed yet so I’m not going to fight Thailand,” Chirag, half of the world number six pair, told PTI.
“We are mainly targeting the Premier League now,” he added.
The top-ranked Indian pair, who reached the season-opening semifinals at the Malaysia Open Super 1000, are set to face Chinese Taipei’s Su Ching Heng and Ye Hong Wei in the first round.
The $210,000 tournament, in fact, lost some of its luster with many Indian badminton players including former world No. 1s Saina Nehwal and Malvika Bansod also pulling out of the event.
While Saina was supposed to face Denmark’s Mia Blichfeldt, Bansod was scheduled to face top seed and former world champion Ratchanok Inthanon.
With the duo withdrawing, Anupama Upadhyaya and Ashmita Chaliha are the only two women in singles, but they will face off in the first match in India.
In men’s doubles, world ranking. 34 Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala also decided to skip it, leaving Ishaan Bhatnagar and Sai Pratheek K, and PS Ravikrishna and Sankar Prasad Udayakumar for now.
However, India will have a number of players, led by Tokyo B Olympian Sai Praneeth, competing in the men’s singles.
Meanwhile, former Singapore Open champion Sai Praneeth, who slipped to 51 in the world rankings, will face a tough task against second seed Lu Guang Zu of China, Sameer Verma, who is also on the comeback track after recovering from injury, meeting the other six seeded Chinese representatives. , Li Shifeng.
Article tags: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Thailand Masters 2023
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