Badminton / Saina, Sindhu-Lakshya and Srikanth may be out of the Commonwealth-Asian Games team, on the basis of ranking, direct entry into the team

Saina Nehwal may not be part of the Indian team for this year's Hangzhou Asian Games and Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Saina has refused to participate in the trials of these games, which are going to be held at KD Jadhav Indoor Hall from April 15 to 20. The Badminton Association of India official has clarified that the shuttler who will not participate in the trials. He will not be included in the team of these games. This means that Saina will not be able to defend her title in the Commonwealth Games. As per BAI's selection policy, shuttlers in the top 15 rankings of world badminton have been exempted from trials, leading to world number seven PV Sindhu, number nine Lakshya Sen, number 11 Kidambi Srikanth and number six Satwik Sairaj Ranki Reddy-Chirag. The Shetty duo has got a direct selection in the squad for these games.

Saina is a two-time Commonwealth Games winner

To bring transparency in the selection this time, BAI has decided to conduct trials for Commonwealth, Asian, Thomas-Uber Cup, in which shuttlers ranked 16 to 50 and shuttlers ranked first 16 in the national rankings will play till March 29. Will happen. In such a situation, Saina's world ranking is 23, due to which she was asked to play trials. Sources reveal that on Monday evening, she informed BAI that she would not play in the trials. Saina won the singles title at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. He won the singles bronze at the Jakarta Asian Games. The Commonwealth Games team will have five men and five women, while the Asian Games and Thomas-Uber Cup squads will have 20 members, with 10 men and 10 women shuttlers.

Renowned shuttlers including Praneeth, Kashyap will enter the trial

BAI will also finalize the probables for the senior core group for the 2024 Olympic Games during the trials. In the singles trial, B Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma, Parupalli Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmit Chaliha, Akarshi Kashyap, N Sikki Reddy, Ashwani Ponnappa, Tasneem Mir, Unnati Hooda, Gayatri Gopichand, Trisha Jolly will play. In singles, apart from 43 men's women shuttlers, 20 pairs will be competing in doubles.