HS Prannoy and men’s doubles pair of MR Arjun and Shlok Ramchandran placed up fantastic performances; however, they couldn’t forestall Singapore from ekeing out a slim 3-2 win over India, a collection B suit of the Asia Mixed Team Championships here Wednesday. India didn’t have an excellent beginning to the five-in-shape tie as the blended doubles pair of MR Arjun and Rutaparna Panda misplaced sixteen-21 13-21 to Singapore’s Danny Bawa Chrisnanta and Tan Wei Han
in the starting match. However, in the 2018 Asian Championships, bronze medallist Prannoy added India’s lower back within the contest, securing a 21-eight, 12-21, 21-17 win over Thailand Masters champion Kean Yew Loh in the men’s singles. After Prannoy leveled the tie, Arjun and Shlok positioned India ahead with a robust 21-sixteen, 21-18 victory over Loh Kean Hean and Christina. The onus to wrap up the tie then falls on the younger shoulders of Assamese wonderkid Ashmita Chaliha. The National Championships bronze medallist fought bravely before 21-17, 12-21, sixteen-21 to World No. 32 Yeo Jia Min in a thrilling ladies’ singles fit.
In the final rubber of the tie, the Indian girls’ doubles pair of Arathi Sara Sunil and Panda positioned up a show of grit and backbone; however, it was not enough as Singapore’s Putri Sari Dewi Citra and Lim Ming Hui prevailed 22-24, 21-15, 21-sixteen win in a single hour and 9 minutes. With this loss, India is positioned at the bottom of Group B, trailing Chinese Taipei and Singapore. With most of the pinnacle Indian stars, such as Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, and Kidambi Srikanth, rested beforehand for the subsequent week’s India Open, the contingent had a tough project match wherein they lost within the region-finals within the preceding version. In a should-win situation, India’s next tackle, Chinese Taipei, isme across on Thand will be Thursday.
India’s pinnacle Men’s Doubles pair of Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty will now not be taking part in the India Open scheduled to take area in the country’s capital later this month, selecting as a substitute to attention on Olympic qualification- PTI reports. The choice changed into an interest in offering more time for the duo to achieve height health ranges for Olympic qualification. A damaged, overdue closing-stricken Satwiksairaj forced the team to sit out events starting in 2019, just like the tournaments in Malaysia, Indonesia, and All England. Even the senior nationals noticed Chirag crew up with Pranaav Jerry Chopra to clinch the Senior Men’s Doubles crown.
Chirag and Satwik were purported to make a comeback in the India Open until it became determined that they could be sitting this one out. “Satwik has recovered from his damage. However, he will best start playing completely on in another week, so after consulting the physio, we decided to bypass the occasions,” Chirag said via PTI. “The Olympic qualification starts a subsequent month, and we need to be in our absolute best to pursue our desires of creating the reduction for the Tokyo Games. So we can be beginning our season with the New Zealand Open World Tour Super three hundred,” he delivered.
“There is the subsequent Sudirman Cup and Australia Open, so in a month, we will play three tournaments so that we can specialize in that now.” For his part, Satwik left humans in no question approximately what the duo’s intentions will be in this time main up to the Olympics. “It becomes a quite correct 12 months for us. We plan to get into the top 10 with a year stop. I suppose we’re nearly there at the pinnacle.
We must make simple little adjustments that can quickly be in the top 10,” he said. Following the exit of Coach Tan Kim Her, Indian doubles badminton is going through a bit of a transition because the players are going to be adjusting to coaches Flandy Limpele and Namrih Suroto from Indonesia, who have taken charge of the education of the National Doubles team. While it is in the early days, Chirag has been quoted announcing that he has been searching for a new education regime in Indonesia. Due to this, health appears to be a top priority for the Indian crew.
