AARHUS (Denmark): Forgetting Sudirman's poor Performance India's women's and Men's teams would like to perform better 16 Countries are Participating in this one-week-long championship in Aarhus (Denmark).
Forgetting the bleak performance of the Sudirman Cup, India would now to do better on the back of star players like Saina Nehwal and Chirag shetty and Satwiksairaj rankireddy in the Thomas and Uber Cup Badminton Championships starting Saturday. 16 countries from five continents will be partipate in this one week long championship.
The women's team is placed in Group B of the Uber cup along with Thailand, Spain and Scotland. Saina will play the first match against Spain. The team won Bronze medals in 2014 and 2016 but will miss medalist PV Sindhu thus time against two-time women's team spain at the olympics. He had decided to take a rest after the Tokyo Olympics. London Olympics bronze medalist Saina Nehwal will be the main focus of india.
Young Malvika Bansod, Aditi Bhatt and Tasneem mir will also try to do well. Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy are the Senior player in Doubles. The agency has won the Bronze medal 2 times (2014-16) The women's team should reach the quater-finals in view of the draw in the Uber Cup. After that we have to show our best games to win medals. We have a chance, Chirag Shetty men's team is eyeing a place in the knockouts. The team has not reached the Knockout stage of the Thomas Cup in 11 years.
The Indian team has been placed in Group C along with china, Netherlands and Tahiti. The team will start its campaign against the Netherlands. The ten-men team consists of four singles players and three doubles players. In singles, B Sai Praneeth, Kidambi Shrikant, Sameer verma and kiran george will take on world number 10 pair of Chirag and satwik, Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun and Krishna Prasad and Vishnu Vardhan in doubles. Men's team would like to Reach the knockout for the first time in 11 years.
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