BAI announces Asian Badminton Team
Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 06:58 PM
Hyderabad Jan 19: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) has announced a team for this year's Asian Badminton Team Championships that will be held from February 6 to 11 in Malaysia.
The team members include Rio Olympic silver medalist
P.V Sindhu, London Olympic bronze medalist Saina Nehwal, World No. 3 Kidambi Srikanth and World No. 10 H.S Prannoy.Apart from Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma in the men's team.
In the women's singles category, Sindhu will lead India's challenge along with Saina Nehwal and Krishna Priya and Ruthvika Gaade.The men's doubles contingent has the exciting young pair of R Satwik Sairaj/Chirag Shetty and also World No. 32 Manu Attri/Sumeeth Reddy and Shlok Ramachandran/M.R Arjun.
General Secretary, BAI, Anup Narang stated has said that "After a very successful 2017 for Indian badminton on the world circuit, we want to start off 2018 by displaying our dominance in the Asian Badminton Team Championships."