India's junior world cup campaign suffered a major setback when world number 21 PV Sindhu and last edition bronze medallist Sameer Verma opted out of the tournament due to injury.
The world junior championship is to be held in Chiba, Japan from October 25.
Sindhu had played through the knee injury at the senior nationals in Srinagar last month and had lost the final to Sayali Gokhale of Air India.
The Asian Junior champion was considered to be the favourite for the gold this year but failed to recover completely and had to pull out.
Sameer, on the other hand, has been out of action for almost a month now due to an ankle injury and would not travel to Japan.
The world junior championship is to be held in Chiba, Japan from October 25.
Sindhu had played through the knee injury at the senior nationals in Srinagar last month and had lost the final to Sayali Gokhale of Air India.
The Asian Junior champion was considered to be the favourite for the gold this year but failed to recover completely and had to pull out.
Sameer, on the other hand, has been out of action for almost a month now due to an ankle injury and would not travel to Japan.
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