Saina Nehwal, HS Prannoy, Parupalli Kashyap cleared to play Thailand Open
File photo: Parupalli Kashyap (L) with Saina Nehwal
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Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal, HS Prannoy and Parupalli Kashyap have all been cleared to play the Yonex Thailand Open Super 1000 tournament after the Badminton World Federation concluded that they pose no danger to the tournament following reassessment of their samples in Bangkok on Tuesday.
Saina had earlier tested positive and was placed in isolation in a hospital there. Her teammate HS Prannoy also tested positive but his sample later returned a negative result. Kashyap, Nehwal s husband, who was sharing a room with her, had gone into self-quarantine and was also retested.
Bangkok : Former world number one shuttler Kidambi Srikanth got a bloodied nose after undergoing multiple COVID-19 tests and miffed at the poor treatment of health officials at Thailand Open, the Indian on Tuesday called it “unacceptable”.
Besides Srikanth, the Indian contingent includes the likes of Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu, Sourabh Verma, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and Ashwini Ponappa.
“We take care of ourselves for the match not to come and shed blood for THIS. However, I gave 4 tests after I have arrived and I can’t say any of them have been pleasant. Unacceptable,” an upset Srikanth wrote on his twitter handle.
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12th January, 2021 22:20 IST
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