Chirag-Satwik pair withdraws from Sudirman Cup on medical grounds

The Indian males’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy has pulled out of the Sudirman Cup blended group championships on medical grounds.
The World no.10 pair was a part of the 12-member Indian group introduced by the Badminton Association of India for the celebrated occasion to be held from September 26 to October 3 in Finland.
“Chirag and Satwik have withdrawn on medical grounds as the former is not well,” a BAI supply advised PTI.
“It is also uncertain if they will participate in the Thomas Cup which will be held after the Sudirman Cup. It will be subject to Chirag’s recovery from illness.”
The nature of sickness couldn’t be ascertained as neither Chirag nor Satwik answered calls.
The Thomas and Uber Cup can be held from October 9 to 17 at Aarhus in Denmark.
Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu had already requested to not be thought of for the 2 occasions citing publish Olympics restoration.
The Sudirman Cup would be the first BWF match to be held this 12 months because the world physique was compelled to cancel or reschedule numerous occasions as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
In Chirag and Satwik’s absence, the onus can be on Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun, who had been the top-ranked doubles pair within the choice trials, to win India the boys’s doubles matches within the match, which contains two singles and three doubles ties in a rubber.
The squad additionally contains Kidambi Srikanth, B Sai Praneeth, girls’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy and children resembling Malvika Bansod, Aditi Bhatt, Tanisha Crasto, Rutuparna Panda.
The biennial match will see the Indian group competing in opposition to defending champions China, Thailand and hosts Finland in Group A.