Ruthvika Shivani gets top billing in Asian Youth championship

Junior national champion Ruthvika Shivani have been given top billing in the girls u-17 singles category of the Flypower Badminton Asia Youth (U-15 and U-17) championship to be held in Kudus, Indonesia, from October 8-13.

The Gopichand Academy trainee is the firm favourite to bring home the u-17 singles especially in the absence of any Chinese challenger in the competition.

In fact, all the four Indian participants in the girls u-17 category have been seeded in the tournament for the first time ever with Shreyanshi Pardeshi seeded third, Gujarat’s Anoushka Parikh sixth and ShuttleCraze Academy, Mumbai’s Karishma Wadkar seventh.

In the boy’s u-17 section, the Indian challenge will be led by fifth seed Chirag Sen with seventh seed Laa Talar, Daniel Farid and Rahul Yadav completing the team.

Indian squad:

U-15

Boys: Siril Verma, Lakshya Sen, Arintap Dasgupta, Gulshan Kartikey, Swastik Sai Raj, Krishna Prasad

Girls: Kanika Kanwal, Ashmita Chaliha, Kalpita Sawant, Akshita Bhandari, Shreya Bose

U-17

Boys: Daniel Farid, Rahul Yadav, Chirag Sen, Laa Talar, MR Arjun, Chirag Shetty, Saurav Sharma, Rohan Kapoor

Girls: Karishma Wadkar, G Ruthvika Shivani, Shriyanshi Pardeshi, Anoushka Parikh, M Archana, JK Malvika, Ashna Roy, Kuhoo Garg

Coaches: K Mohan, Vikas Sharma, O S Rana