The Badminton Association of India (BAI) will fund 28 Indian shuttlers, including senior national men's and women's champions Chirag Sen and Anmol Kharb, for international tournaments this year. (Badminton News)
Indian players ranked between 26 and 75 in BWF world ranki𝐆ngs and top performers from the Senior National championships, who are not part of the national camp, will benefit from this opportunity.
The funds w꧋ill come as part of BAI's partnership with Rural Electrification Corporation (REC).
Abu Dhabi Masters champion Unnati Hooda and 2023 Badminton Asia U-17 Junior championships silver medallist Tanvi Sharma are among the 28 players across singles and doubles categoꦛries who have been chosen based on their performances in multiple tournaments.
"BAI is committed to ensuring promising talents get much-needed support to showcase their potential as the national campers even if they are not part of the national camp," said♑ BAI Secretary Sa♏njay Mishra in a release on Monday.
"Our partnership with REC will not only help us broad base these opportunities and give shuttlers more and more opportunities to participate in multiple international challenger events a♎s well as S🉐uper 300s and thereby better their rankings as well as gain experience of playing against foreign players.
"This initiative aligns with our goals to cre♊ate strong opportunities for more players to show their abilities as well as compete and benefit from the national badminton structure."
The selected players have b𒁃een given the option to choose three tournaments, including two Super 300 events — the Orleans Masters and Swiss Open — from a total of ei🐲ght tournaments, for which BAI will extend complete financial support to each of the shuttlers.
Full list of players:
Men’s singles:
1. Sathish Kumar Karunakaran (World Rank 51)
2. S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian (WR 71)
3. Sameer Verma (WR 74)
4. Chirag Sen (Senior Nationals champion)
5. Tharun Mannepalli (Senior Nationals r🎃unner-up)
Women's Singles:
1. Aakarshi Kashyap (WR 40)
2. Malvika Bansod (WR 52)
3. Unnati Hooda (WR 56)
4. Tanya Hemanth (WR 69)
5. Tasnim Mir (WR 73)
6. Imad Farooqui Samiya (WR 74)
7. Anmol Kharb (Senior National Champion)
8. Tanvi Sharma (Senior National runner-up)
Men's Doubles:
1. Hariharan Amsakarunan/Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi (WR 70)
2. P.S Ravikrishna/Sankar Prasad Udayakunar (WR 75)
3. Suraj Gౠoala/Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy (Senior Natio⛄nals champions)
Women's Doubles:
1. Ashwini Bhat K/Shikha Gautam (WR 49)
2. Rutaparna Panda/Swetaparna Panda (WR 52)
3. Simran Singh/Ritika Thaker (WR 63)
4. Priya Konjengbam/Shruti Mishra (Senior National champiಞons)
Mixed Doubles:
1. Sathish Kumar Karunakaran/Aadya Variyath (ꦬWR 64).
