Saina Trials and Sindhu, Lakshya are in the Team India for Asia Mixed Team Championships 2023

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BAI Senior Selection Committee Meeting was held on 25th December 2022 at 10.30am to finalise the guidelines for the selection trials for selecting the Indian Badminton team for the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2023 to be held in Dubai, UAE from 14-19 February 2023.

Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships 2023 will crown the best male and female national badminton teams in Asia and at the same time serve as the Asian qualification event for the 2023 Thomas & Uber Cup finals.

The following members of the Senior Selection Committee attended the meeting.

1- Mr Partho Ganguly - Ex-International Player, Member

2- Mr Pullela Gopichand - Chief National Coach, Ex-International Player, Member

3- Ms Mallika Baruah - Ex-International Player, Member

4- Ms Manjusha Kanwar - Ex-International Player, Member

5- Mr Dwi Kristiawan - Foreign Coach, Member

6- Mr Sanjay Mishra - Convener

The committee requires to finalise the Indian contingent size with maximum of 14 players (7 Men and 7 Women) on or before 20th Jan 2023. Eventwise players distribution is as follows.

Men's Singles 2

Women's Singles 2

Men's Doubles 4

Women'sDoubles 4

Mixed Doubles 2

Top two singles or doubles players/pairs in the BWF World Ranking 15 and above are selected as direct entry and announced by the committee.

Men’s Singles:

Lakshya Sen [7]

HS Prannoy [9]

Women’s Singles:

PV Sindhu [6]

Men’s Doubles:

Satwiksairaj Ranikreddy & Mr Chirag Shetty [5]

Singles Tactics #1, Forcing Movement Pressure on the

Singles Tactics #2, Flexible Base Position

The remaing players except the above direct entry,

1 spot for Women's Single's player

1 spot for Men’s Doubles pair

2 spots Women's Doubles pairs

1 spot Mixed Doubles pairs

will be selected based on the selection trails scheduled on 2nd & 3rd January 2023 in Delhi where the BWF players / pairs in 16 to 50 invited to participate.

For 1 spot, 3 players / pairs and for 2 spots, 4 players / pairs are invited to participate in the selection trials.

The following are the probables invited for the selection trials. If the invited player is not confirmed their participation on or before 30th Dec 2022, the next player in the BWF World rank 16 to 50 will be invited.

Women’s Singles (1 spot)

Malvika Bansod [32]

Saina Nehwal [33]

Aakarshi Kashyap [35]

Men’s Doubles (1 spot)

MR Arjun / Dhruv Kapila [24]

Krishna Prasad Garga / Vishnuvardhan Goud P [35]

Ishaan Bhatnagar / Mr Sai Patheek K [44]

Women’s Doubles (2 spots)

Treesa Jolly & Gayatri P Gopichand [18]

Sikki Reddy & Ashwini Ponnappa [24]

Ashwini Bhatt & Shikha Gautam [33] Haritha Manazhiyil & MAshna Roy [44]

Mixed Doubles (1 spot)

Ishaan Bhatnagar / Tanisha Crasto [21] Venkat Gaurav Prasad / Juhi Dewangan [45]

Rohan Kapoor / Sikki Reddy[69](Though only 2 pairs are in the top 50, based on the next best performing pair is selected)

Singles Tactics #3, Hitting to the Corners

In the last edition held at Malaysia in February 2022, 8 teams were participated, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Hong Kong in Group A, and Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Kazakhstan. In group A, India hadn't qualified for knock out stage and shared the 5/6 place with Japan. The Indian contingent represented India in 2022 edition were,

Men’s Singles: Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath, Kiran George, Raghu M

Doubles: PS Ravi Krishna/UdayKumar ShankarPrasad, Amsakarunan Hariharan/Ruban Kumar, Dingku Singh Konthoujam/Manjit Singh Khwairakpam.

Women's Singles: Malvika Bansod, Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashmita Chaliha, Tara Shah

Doubles: Simran Singhi/Khushi Gupta, V Nila/Arubala, Aarthi Sara Sunil/Riza Mahreen.

The above team was selected based on the All India Ranking tournaments in Chennai and Hyderabad during Dec 2021 and players / pairs of top 25 BWF World ranks.

The best performance for India I'm Asia Team Championships

Singles Tactics #4, On the Same Corners