Denmark, Mia Blichfeldt, criticized the playing conditions at the indoor stadium of Indira Gandhi, which organizes the Badminton India Open Super 750 tournament, and also criticized the levels of pollution in the national capital, calling for such conditions “unhealthy and unacceptable”. The world no. 23 had picked up a gastric infection but managed to fight in the second round before losing 21-13 16-21 8-21 against Wang Zhi Yi in China. “Finally, at home after a long and stressful week in India. It’s 2 years in a row now that I fall sick during open India,” wrote Blichfeldt on Instagram.
“It is really difficult to accept that several weeks of work and preparation are wasted because of bad conditions. It is not just for anyone we have to train and play in smog, birds shit on short and dirt everywhere.
“These conditions are too unhealthy and unacceptable. @ Bwf.official. I am happy to have succeeded in the second round, but I am far from satisfied.” The Badminton Association of India (BAI), on the part, said that it was faced with “logistical challenges” after obtaining the place four days before the event and that it is looking for “alternative places” to host the emblematic event.
“Like the host and staging authority of the Yonex Sunrise India Open, the Badminton Association of India has access to the stadium and its infrastructure only four days before the event, which poses important logistical challenges,” the secretary of Bai Sanjay Mishra said on Saturday.
“We are already in discussion with the BWF to explore other places and actively assess the infrastructure options,” he added.
After her defeat on Thursday, Blichfeldt told the BWF media team that she had launched all night and that she had barely got on the field the next day for her second round match.
“This night (Tuesday) was terrible. The only sleep I had was in the morning because I continued to vomit all night. I’m really tired now and my body is really dead,” said Blichfeldt.
“It is not so pleasant for me, but I am satisfied with the match that I pulled yesterday and the result today, but I would have liked to be able to go to court at 100%. It happened Tuesday evening. It took a lot of mental work (to get in court).
“It’s really frustrating when you train to come to these tournaments, then it’s one of the things that prevents you from playing.” The pair of French mixed doubles from Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue also expressed concerns about weather conditions on Thursday.
“The game room is rather pleasant. But the weather is quite cold here in Delhi and the pollution is really high at the moment, so it’s not easy to play, not the best conditions for playing,” said Gicquel.
It is not an isolated incident because during the Syed Modi International Super 300 tournament, foreign players also raised concerns concerning the bad conditions at the interior stage of Babu Banarasi Das, quoting questions such as bird excrement and courts loaded with dust.
A few days later, the Malaysian Soong Joo came to social networks to complain about muddy brown water who was fleeing a pool valve from his hotel when he arrived in Guwahati for the Guwahati Masters Super 100. In addition, the former world number 1 Nozomi Okuhara of Japan pretended to have a night experience, then at the opening of Odisha, where she was overfact Private Tabbie in a Cuttack hotel.
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