NEW DELHI: Olympic champion Carolina Marin and World No 1 Kento Momota toh star-studded field of international shuttlers te ase kuntu te India Open Super 500 event shuru kuribole ase 11 para 16 may tak etu bi darwaza bondh thakikena etu bi covid 19 pandemic samay te.
Etu USD 400,000 tournament last few qualification events thaka toh 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, nimete komti hoilebi 228 (114 men and 114 women) entries 33 different national associations,etu te China khan ke tanibo.
Hoilebi Badminton Association of India (BAI) para koikena janaidiya thakishe ki”uthi thaka COVID-19 casesb desh te etu tournament toh bio-secure bubble te lobule ase spectators aro media khan nathakikena etu bi strict COVID-19 safety protocols khan chulaikena.
BAI para release te koikena janaidiya thakishe “sob khelari aro officials khan South Africa, Brazil, Middle East and European countries etu te UK para 7-day quarantine period thakibo aro capital city te May 3 te report kuribole lageh.”
“… Players and officials dusra desh khan para may 6 para ahibo aro 4 din quarantine period jabo.’
court, te three-time world champion Marin toh lead kuribowomens single category te etu te dusra Top-10 shuttlers khan etu te Akane Yamaguchi, 2019 world champion PV Sindhu, Korea’s An Se-Young and Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong khan ase.
India te sobse dangor contigent ase etu te 48 players (27 women and 21 men), khan ase aro Malaysia para second biggest squad 26 shuttlers thakishe.etu te 10 maiki aro 16 mota ase.
Komti hoilebi sob milaikena 10 shuttlers (4 women and 6 men) from China para etu bhhaagh luwa list te ase.
Etu mota khan majhotte two-time world champion Momota, defending champion Viktor Axelson, Anders Antonsen and reigning All England Open champion Zii Jia Lee bi ase.
Former World No 1 Srikanth Kidambi para India charge toh lead kuribo tai logotwe B Sai Praneeth, HS Prannoy and Parupalli Kashyap thakibo.
India’s men’s doubles challenge te World No. 10 pairing of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy thakibo aro Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy toh aim kuri ase valuable Olympic qualification points women’s doubles te pabole nimete.
Ponappa toh Satwik logote mixed doubles category te thakibo etu te Japanese pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino six Top-10 combinations te ase.
Entry para olabole nimete last darek toh april 19 ase aro draw toh 20 april te olabole ase.governing body para koikena janaidiya thakishe ki “Delhi Government para RT-PCR test arrival 3 and 6 May aro etu logote 9 and 14 May te lobule ase.
BAI general secretary of BAI Ajay Singhania para koikena janaidiya thakishe ki”ami khan bishi khushi ase etu badminton toh shuru kuribo nimete.hoilebi olop akhe te cases utha toh ami khan hosiyar thakibole lageh.”
“ami khan buji ase spectators toh ami khan utha laga kisaa laga part ase hoilebi etu sal toh etu ekta Olympic qualifier thakikena bi ekta star shuttler action te thakishe ami khan etu decision lobule lageh etu tournament toh bio bubble te lobule nimete
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