Badminton Association of India officially announced that Kidambi Sreekath pulls out from Thailand Open due to his right calf muscle injury. This resulted in a walkover for Lee Zii Jia in the second round. The official page mentioned “Right Calf muscle pull. So gave walkover for today’s match. Should see how he improves in the next 5 days and then will decide about his participation in the next tournament”
🚨 Official statement on Srikanth’s walkover :
“Right Calf muscle pull. So gave walkover for today’s match.
Should see how he improves in the next 5 days and then will decide about his participation in the next tournament.” https://t.co/LC1zleaFeT
— BAI Media (@BAI_Media) January 14, 2021
Kidambi Sreekanth won his first-round after thrashing a country-fellow opponent Sourabh Verma, With 9 consecutive points in the first game, Sreekanth won by 21-12 and then again second round by 21-11 where he scored 10 consecutive points. Earlier he accused the poor treatment from the health official in Thailand Open. He shared a picture of bleeding nose and also said that he had been taken 4 Covid-19 tests and neither was pleasant.
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 pic.twitter.com/ir56ji8Yjw— Kidambi Srikanth (@srikidambi) January 12, 2021
The recent tweets and incidents showed that Indians are not getting treated well in Thailand Open, this might be a serious issue as there are a lot of Tournaments ahead. Saina Nehwal also complained about the practice time and not being allowed to meet the physios. Also, the management staff asked Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy to be in isolation in the hospital for 10 days, when they were found Corona virus-positive.
