BATC 2022: Indian males’s and girls’s groups clubbed with defending champions Indonesia, Japan

India have acquired respectable attracts on the Badminton Asia Team Championships with the lads’s and girls’s groups clubbed with defending champions Indonesia and Japan, respectively, on the continental occasion scheduled in Shah Alam, Malaysia from February 15 to twenty.
The younger Indian males’s workforce, led by world championships silver medallist and India Open winner Lakshya Sen, will even must compete with South Korea and Hong Kong in group A.
The ladies’s workforce, comprising Syed Modi International finalist Malvika Bansod, Aakarshi Kashyap and Ashmita Chaliha, will face Malaysia and Japan in group B through the continental occasion, which will even act as qualifiers for the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals.

The group A consists of Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan and Korea.
Teams ending on the high two positions in every group of each the lads’s and girls’s occasions will make it to the final 4 and in addition qualify for the Thomas Cup finals in Bangkok on May 17-22.

The championships misplaced some sheen with the withdrawal of Thailand, Chinese Taipei and China attributable to considerations over rising circumstances of COVID-19.
Three-time champions Indonesia might be trying to win a fourth males’s title whereas reigning ladies’s champions Japan will hope to retain the crown they gained final time.