The Badminton Asia Team Championships are underway in Shah Alam, Malaysia. Happening from February 13–18, 2024, the biennial match will witness the lads’s and ladies’s groups from India battling it out for the celebrated trophies.

India’s males’s workforce’s marketing campaign will kick off on February 14, the place they may tackle prime seeds China of their opening encounter.

The workforce is led by World No. 7 HS Prannoy within the singles class and the World No. 1 pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy within the doubles occasions. Additionally they have former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Dhruv Kapila, M. R. Arjun, Suraj Goala, and Pruthvi Roy within the ranks.

The boys’s workforce, which gained the elusive Thomas Cup in 2022 and the silver on the Asian Video games final 12 months, will probably be desirous to make their mark on the continental stage as soon as once more.

In the meantime, the ladies’s workforce may even face China of their first match of the group phases. The return of two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu will considerably enhance the workforce’s power. Sindhu is making a comeback after recovering from a knee damage sustained in the course of the French Open.

Alongside Sindhu, veteran doubles participant Ashwini Ponnappa may even be half of what’s in any other case a squad filled with rising stars like Tanisha Crasto, Treesa Jolly, and Gayatri Gopichand. The opposite shuttlers within the contingent are 15-year-old Tanvi Sharma, 17-year-old Anmol Kharb, Ashmita Chaliha, Priya Devi Konjengbam, and Shruti Mishra.

With Sindhu’s return, the ladies’s workforce’s possibilities of success have acquired a substantial elevate, however it’ll nonetheless be a troublesome job for the younger workforce to tackle among the heavyweights of worldwide badminton.

India is assured a spot within the knockout phases as the primary two groups from each group will get to advance. Group W consists of solely India and China.