Excluded 5 in tennis not part of AITA recommendations, don’t meet criteria: SAI source
NEW DELHI: (Aug 25) The five tennis players excluded from the country’s Asian Games squad did not feature in the short list sent to the IOA by the All India Tennis Association (AITA), a Sports Authority of India (SAI) source said on Tuesday, justifying the omission on the basis of their lower-than-prescribed international rankings.
Manas Dhamne (men’s singles), Vaishnavi Adkar (women’s singles), Sahaja Yamalapalli (women’s singles), Vaidehee Chaudhari (women’s doubles) and Prarthana Thombare (women’s doubles) were not included in the seven-member Indian squad as they did not meet the criteria of being inside the top-8 of continental standings.
“Their names were not received by Sports Ministry in the final list shared by the IOA (Indian Olympic Association). In fact their names were not there in the short list sent by the All India Tennis Association (AITA) to the IOA,” the source said
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