India's women's badminton team recently won the Badminton Asia Team Championship, 2024. Who among the following players was not a part of the team?
- (a)P.V. Sindhu
- (b)Treesa Jolly
- (c)Anmol Kharb
- (d)Saina Nehwal
Correct — D, Saina Nehwal. India's women won the Badminton Asia Team Championships for the first time at Shah Alam in Malaysia in February 2024, beating Thailand in the final. The squad was built around P. V. Sindhu in the top singles, the doubles pairs of Treesa Jolly with Gayatri Gopichand and Tanisha Crasto with Ashwini Ponnappa, and the younger singles players Ashmita Chaliha and Anmol Kharb, with Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra also in the group. Anmol Kharb, then seventeen, won the deciding match in the final and became the story of the tournament. Saina Nehwal, India's 2012 Olympic bronze medallist and former world number one, was not in the squad; by 2024 she had been away from the circuit with injury and was not part of the team event, which is why she is the odd name on the list.
- (a)P.V. Sindhu — She led the side as its senior singles player and was part of the winning campaign.
- (b)Treesa Jolly — One half of the women's doubles pair with Gayatri Gopichand, and part of the squad.
- (c)Anmol Kharb — Very much in the team — she won the decisive singles rubber in the final at the age of seventeen.
The Badminton Asia Team Championships is a continental team event held every two years, separate from the Thomas and Uber Cups, which are the world team championships. The 2024 edition at Shah Alam doubled as an Asian qualifying event for the Thomas and Uber Cups. India's women had never won it before; the men's team had won the Thomas Cup in 2022, the country's first world team title in badminton.
The item is answered by knowing who was playing rather than who is famous. The three names that are in the squad span the generations of the team — an established singles star, a doubles specialist and a teenaged debutant — while the fourth is a great player of an earlier era who was not competing. A useful check for this family of questions is the calendar: Saina Nehwal's last major international appearances were well before 2024, and she announced her retirement from the sport in 2026, which puts the 2024 team beyond her career.
- India's women won the Badminton Asia Team Championships title for the first time in February 2024 at Shah Alam, Malaysia, beating Thailand in the final.
- Anmol Kharb won the deciding singles match of the final at seventeen.
- The squad included P. V. Sindhu, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, Tanisha Crasto, Ashwini Ponnappa, Ashmita Chaliha and Anmol Kharb.
- India's men won the Thomas Cup in 2022, the country's first world team title in badminton.
- Assuming the most famous player must have been in the squad.
- Confusing the Asia team event with the Uber Cup, which is the world women's team championship.
- Mixing up the 2022 Thomas Cup win by the men with this women's team title.
As a who-was-not-in-the-team item, or as a straightforward question on which country won a named team championship and in which year.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
India won the Thomas Cup for the first time in which year?
- (a)2016
- (b)2018
- (c)2020
- (d)2022
Answer(d) 2022 — India's men beat Indonesia in the final in Bangkok for the country's first world team title in badminton.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Uber Cup is the world team championship in badminton for
- (a)men's teams
- (b)women's teams
- (c)mixed teams
- (d)junior teams
Answer(b) women's teams — the men's equivalent is the Thomas Cup and the mixed team event is the Sudirman Cup.