BWF World Championships | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty withdraw due to injury
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have withdrawn from the upcoming BWF World Championships to recover from their respective injury niggles. Rankireddy was suffering from a shoulder strain during the recent Thailand Open while Shetty has suffered an abdomen injury.
Promising men's doubles duo of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy created history by becoming the first Indian pair to win a major title by clinching the Thailand Open title last week. Despite pulling off a memorable win, the Indian pair will miss out on the upcoming Badminton World Championships after having picked up injuries during the outing in Thailand.
"We were carrying the injuries during the Thailand Open and they haven’t healed yet. We could have played (world championship) but there was a chance of increasing it as it hasn’t healed completely. So we decided not to play and concentrate on next set of tournaments,” Shetty told Scroll.
When the opening draw was released, the Indian youngsters were awarded an opening round bye.
“We spoke to the coaches and physio and they said if we play then it can aggravate and we might miss out a month or two. So being the pre-olympic year, we decided not to take any risk. We will be playing the China Open and Korea Open in September,” he told PTI.
In addition to that, the mixed doubles pair of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki Reddy also backed out of the tournament as the former is struggling with a leg injury. This means that India will not have any representation in mixed doubles with Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa unable to compete as well.
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