HYDERABAD: It is official today.
Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth Won’t be a part of the Indian group to the Tokyo Olympics.
Even the Badminton World Federation (BWF) stated the eligibility period formally closes June 15 and there’ll not be any more qualifying occasions prior to that deadline.
“The Badminton World Federation (BWF) may affirm no additional tournaments will be performed within the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying window.
“Therefore, although the eligibility period formally closes 15 June 2021 according to the Revised Tokyo 2020 Qualification System, the present Hurry To Tokyo ranks listing won’t change.
Invitations will be sent soon with closing involvement lists and seedings to be printed in the conclusion of the procedure,” that the BWF discharge stated.
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina is rated 22 in the path To Tokyo ranks.
A player has to be at the top-16 of standing until June 15.
For this, just PV Sindhu qualified in India from the women’s singles group while Sai Praneeth is going to be the only Indian in the men’s singles.
Men’s doubles set of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will perform at their first Olympics.
In all, just four Indian shuttlers qualified to the highest occasion.
Srikanth, who’s in No.
20, had failed to make the cutoff.
BWF secretary overall Thomas Lund stated the eligibility procedure is in effect shut.
“The Olympic eligibility procedure is in effect shut as there aren’t any extra chances for players to make points.
“But we need to get confirmations from National Olympic Committees and Member Interactions, followed with no probable reallocations, which is going to take lots of months to finish.
” The deadline to get Tokyo 2020 Sport Entries is just 5 July 2021.