Kidambi Srikanth and Ashmita Chaliha topped the men’s and women’s singles trials respectively on Sunday
Published Date – Mon, 8 May 23 at 08:00 AM
Kidambi Srikanth and Ashmita Chaliha topped the men’s and women’s singles trials respectively on Sunday
Hyderabad: Kidambi Srikanth and Ashmita Chaliha topped the men’s singles and women’s singles trials respectively on Sunday, securing their spots in the individual events at the Asian Games.
2021 World Championships silver medalists Srikanth and Chaliha remain unbeaten in six matches during the four-day selection at the Jwala Gutta Badminton Academy, joining PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy in individual competitions as selectors name the 19-member squad for the intercontinental event .
Srikanth tops Group A with three wins, beating Sidantegu 21-13 21-16 before beating Rakshyasen 21-15 21-14 in Sunday’s second-stage qualifying match. puta.
The former world number one defeated national champion Miton Manjunath 22-24 21-13 21-14 on Saturday.
While Srikanth was first in Stage 2, Lakshya was second in the 1-4 standings, and his loss to the former was the only blemish on an otherwise clean roster.
The Commonwealth Games champion has four victories to his name at the top of Group B. Rakeshya beat Manjunath 21-17 21-8 on Sunday before losing to Srikanth. He beat Gupta 21-17 21-11 in the first game of the second period on Saturday.
With two losses and one win, Manjunath ranked third with 1-4 in the second stage.
Lakshya and Manjunath will thus complete the men’s singles lineup for the team competition.
In the women’s singles, Chaliha and Anupama Upadhyaya took the top two positions in the second stage, followed by Malvika Bansod, while Unnati Hooda lost three games to finish fourth.
Therefore, Anupama Upadhyaya and Malvika will be the other singles players in the women’s team event.
According to the competition system, 9 men’s singles and 8 women’s singles will each enter the trials, 4 men’s doubles and mixed doubles each, and 3 women’s doubles.
Singles players were divided into two groups in the first stage, and the top two players in each group entered the second stage.
The four players will then face off in a league format, and the results of the second stage will be regarded as the final ranking.
The selectors also proposed to select a pair for the men’s and women’s doubles and two mixed doubles combinations in a round-robin format to determine the final ranking.
After the trials, Sai Pratheek K and Tanisha Crasto topped the standings, while Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy came second in the mixed doubles final.
World No. 23 men’s pair Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun managed to top the list after two other pairs – Suraj Goala and Pruthvi Roy, and Krishna prasad and Vishnuvardhan Goud – based on a three-way tie. It also has two wins in three games.
Dhruv-Arjun will join newly crowned Asian champions Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, while Tanisha and Ashwini Ponnappa, topping the table after winning two matches, will join Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa in women’s doubles Jolly poses for a photo.
The Hangzhou Asian Games in China are scheduled to be held from September 23 to October 8.
Team India ended their campaign in the quarter-finals of the 2018 men’s and women’s team events.
Indian team:
Men’s Singles: HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth (Individual/Team), Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath (Team) Men’s Doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila/MR Arjun (Individual/Team) Women’s Singles: PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha ( Individual/team), Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod (team) Doubles (individual/team)
Women’s Doubles: Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa Jolly, Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto (individual/team) Mixed Doubles: Rohan Kapoor/N Sikki Reddy, Sai Pratheek K/Tanisha Crasto.
