New Delhi: Star Indian Shuttlers Saina Nehwal and B Sai Praneeth will lead women and men’s teams in the Thomas and Uber final, scheduled in Denmark from October 9-17.
Bai also on Sunday named the 12-member Indian team for the Sudirman Cup, which was scheduled to take place from September 26 to October 3 in Finland.
For the Thomas and the Uber Cup, the London Saina Olympic bronze medal will be accompanied by a single number of the trial of Malvika Bansod, Aditi Bhatt and Tasnim Mir on a team of 10 female members.
Three double pairs include Tanisha Crasto and Clutcharna Panda, who claim the top spot in the trial.
The 10-member team also consists of four single players and three double pairs.
Along Praneeth and Used World No.
1 Kidambi Srikanth, Top-2 single player from the trial – Kiran George and Sameer Verma have secured places in the team.
The Top Men’s Double Couple from the Chirag Shetty and Satwikaraj Ranking has been selected in teams with 2 top ranking pairs of trials.
The players, for the Thomas and Uber Cup and the Sudirman Cup, were chosen based on their appearance in a trial that had just been concluded regardless of the player’s automatic selection / pairs, which was placed in the top 20 in the world.
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Twice the Sindhu PV Medal Olympiad was not included in the squad because he asked not to consider himself to the choice of quoting post-Olympic recovery.
In the Thomas Cup, the Indian team has been placed in Group C with defending Chinese champions with the Netherlands and Tahiti into two other teams in the group.
While the women’s team has been withdrawn in Group B with Thailand, Spain and Scotland in the Uber Cup.
On the other hand, the 12-member member team for the Sudirman Cup, the top-ranking double pair of the trial of Dhruv Kapila and Mr Arjun have been named in the squad with Srikanth, Praneeth and Double of Satwikaraja and Chirag.
Among the women, double installed 2 of the trial, Tanisha-Rupa Clutuparna and Ashwini Ponnappa-n Sikki Reddy was chosen with 2 singles from the Bansod and Bhatt trial.
The biennial tournament will see the Indian team competing together with defending champions China, Thailand and host Finland in group A.