The Indian badminton group comprising of Olympic hopefuls Saina Nehwal, B Sai Praneeth and former globe range a person Kidambi Srikanth still left for Thailand on Sunday to participate in two Tremendous 1000 events.
Meanwhile, PV Sindhu has also left the British isles to journey to Bangkok, where she would be achieving through Doha. The Rio Olympic silver medalist had been in London because October to boost her schooling and diet. The 25-calendar year-aged is seeking ahead to her return to competitive badminton in advance of the impending Tokyo Olympics.
The best Indian shuttlers are set to mark their intercontinental return article the COVID-19 pandemic at the Yonex Thailand Open up (January 12-17) followed by the Toyota Thailand Open (January 19-24) and the BWF Environment Tour Finals (January 27-31).
Indian badminton workforce to get there in Dubai just before traveling to Thailand
The Indian badminton team will arrive in Dubai, as the bio-bubble settlement involving India and Thailand is but to be finalised. The local organisers have laid out demanding restrictions for shuttlers and officials: a destructive RT-PCR test report (72 hrs in advance of arrival) and a compulsory 14-working day quarantine at the hotel.
The Olympic-sure men’s duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are in the Indian badminton staff together with doubles stars Ashwini Ponappa and N Sikki Reddy. HS Prannoy, Parupalli Kashyap, Sameer Verma, Dhruv Kapila and Manu Attri are also portion of the Indian contingent that remaining Hyderabad on Sunday.
International coaches Agus Dwi Santoso and Park Tae Sang and doubles coach Dwi Kristiawan have also accompanied the Indian badminton group for their upcoming tour.
Parupalli Kashyap took to social media to write-up a image of himself with his spouse Saina Nehwal from their flight to Thailand.
“Very first tournament immediately after a long time .. wanting forward to the event… Thailand open up 2021,” Kashyap wrote in the caption.
Saina Nehwal will have a challenging campaign at the impending Thailand Open, as she faces former Japanese star Nozomi Okuhara in the to start with spherical. She is then set to lock horns from the Thailand-born current planet variety 5 Ratchanok Intanon.
On the other hand, PV Sindhu is predicted to have a respectable run in the two Tremendous 1000 activities. She performs Denmark’s Mia Blichfeldt in the very first spherical of the YONEX Thailand Open and then challenge Busanan Ongbamrungphan at the TOYOTA Thailand Open.
Posted 04 Jan 2021, 13:17 IST
