Junior World Badminton Championship – Indian Junior Badminton Team: Newly-crowned junior world no. 1 Anupama Upadhyaya and Odisha Open Super 100 champion Unnati Hooda will lead India’s challenge at the BWF World Junior Badminton Championships. The tournament will take place in Santander, Spain from October 17-30. The team was picked after two All India Ranking tournaments and a selection trial in Raipur. Follow Junior World Badminton Championship updates with InsideSport.IN
- Unnati had topped the girls singles trials with S Rakshita Sree and Anupama finishing second and third respectively.
- In-form Bharat Raghav, who won both the All Indian ranking titles in Goa and Panchkula and former junior world No. 1 Sankar Muthusamy, will be India’s best bet in the boy’s singles category.
- Ayush Shetty completing the line up.
- India has so far won one gold, three silver and five bronze medals in the competition.
- Reigning Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lakshya Sen being the last Indian to stand on the podium by bagging a bronze in 2018.
“The junior world championships is happening after a long gap. The team has been selected after an extensive selection trials,” said Badminton Association of India (BAI) secretary Sanjay Mishra.
“We are confident that we would be challenging for medals in the mixed team championships and also the individual events,” he added.
Junior World Badminton Championship: Unnati Hooda, Anupama Upadhyaya to spearhead Indian challenge in Jr Badminton World Championships
Indian Junior Badminton Team: The event will start with the mixed team event. India will also field two pairs each in the men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles events.
The new combination of Arsh Mohammad and Abhinav Thakur along with Nicholas Nathan Raj and Tushar Suveer will shoulder the men’s doubles responsibility.
In women’s doubles, All India ranking meet winners in Goa — Ishrani Baruah and Devika Sihag will represent India. They will be joined by Tamil Nadu’s Shreya Balaji and Srinidhi N, who helped their state win the South Zone U19 mixed team title recently.
India squad – Indian Junior Badminton Team
Boy’s singles: Bharat Raghav, Sankar Muthusamy S, Ayush Shetty.
Girl’s singles: Unnati Hooda, Rakshitha Sree S, Anupama Upadhyaya
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