Prajakta Sawant lashes out at BAI for World Championship snub

India's doubles specialist Prajakta Sawant today lashed out at the Badminton Association Of India (BAI) for withdrawing, without consent, her entry with Malaysia's Yogendran Khrishnan from the mixed doubles category of the World Championship.

"I feel very sad to announce that Badminton Association of India has withdrawn my mixed doubles entry with Yogendran Krishnan without informing me or without my consent. This is a very unprofessional thing done by BAI," Sawant wrote on her twitter handle.

Sawant also said that the young Indian pair of Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg, who were ranked 67th in the April 26 World Championship qualification ranking, were selected in their place despite being lower ranked then them in BWF chart at the cut off date.

"Our entry was confirmed by both sides from Malaysia as well as India but BAI withdrew my entry without my permission just to give an lndian pair a chance who is ranked 67 according to the qualification date of World Championships and we were ranked 51 according to World Championships 2018 qualification date."
"What happened earlier I do not know. But as a responsible person I cannot recommend entry of a Malaysian citizen from BAI. BAI can face big problem if we do that without clearance of MEA and sports ministry, if at all we have to even consider such an eventuality."
"This was a very, very unprofessional move by Badminton Association of India and it's my right to fight for it."