Sindhu pulls out of World c’ship due to stress fracture

NEW DELHI: ACE Indian shut lerp vs indhu on saturday pulled out of the upcoming World Championships due to a stress fracture injury on her let foot.

Giving an update about his fitness on social media, the two time Olympic medallist confirmed that she suffered the injury during the quarterfinal of the recently concluded 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

“While ia mon the high of winning a gold medal at the CWG for India, unfortunately I have to pull out of the World Championships. I felt pain and there was an injury scare at the quarter finals of the CWG, but with the help of my coach, physio and trainer, I decided to push as far as I could,” Sindu said in a statement on twiter.

“The pain was unbearable during and post the finals. Hence I rushed for an MRI as soon as I got back to Hyderabad. The doctors confirmed a stress fracture on my let foot and recommended rest for a few weeks,” she added.

World No 7 Sindhu is hopeful of a speedy recovery. “I should be back to training in a few weeks,” she said.

Sindhu won her maiden gold medal at CWG 2022, defeating Michelle Li of Canada 21-15, 21-13 in the women’s singles event final. This was her fith CWG medal, with two in the mixed team events. She also won bronze in 2014 and silver in 2018.

The BWF World Championships 2022 is set to be played in Tokyo from August 22. Indian shuttlers have ensured 12 podium finishes at the world badminton championships but Sindhu’ sg old medal in women’s singles back in 2019 remains the only gold in the lot.

Meanwhile, former World No 1 Saina Nehwal will return to the court ater missing the CWG. The London Olympics bronze medal list, currently ranked 28th, will meet Jong Kong’s Cheung Ngan Yi in her opener and may come across world No 6 Nozomi Okuhara of Japan as early as in the second round.

Mal vika Bans odis the third Indian in the women’ s singles draw and starts her campaign against Danish world No .21 Line Christopher sen.

Among the men, India’ s Kidambi Srikanth( ranked 13th), Lakshya Sen (10th) and HS Prannoy (18th) are in the same half of the draw, and only one of them can make the semi-finals.

The focus will be on Lakshya, who won the men’s singles gold in Birmingham. He also got a first-round bye for the Tokyo world championships.