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India Open May te

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