NEW DELHI, Sept 12:
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 to be held at Santander, Spain from October 17-30.
The Indian team for the prestigious tournament, to be held after a gap of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was picked after a thorough selection process that included two All India Ranking tournaments and a selection trial in Raipur.
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 with Ayush Shetty completing the line up. (PTI)
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