The 2025 Sudirman Cup is about to start, and the Indian team has been hit hard, with the number one women's doubles and men's doubles withdrawing one after another

The 2025 Sudirman Cup World Badminton Mixed Team Championships will be ignited in Xiamen, China, on the 27th, but India's top men's doubles and world No. 11 Rankireddy/Shetty withdrew due to injury, which greatly reduced the strength of the Indian team.

India's number one men's doubles pair and world No. 11 Rankireddy/Shetty

Former Men's Doubles world No. 1 Rankireddy/Shetty have been plagued by injuries since the Paris Olympics last August, and they have no choice but to withdraw from the upcoming Su Cup, which will undoubtedly greatly affect the overall strength of the Indian team.

As India's number one men's doubles duo, Rankireddy/Shetty were key players in India's maiden Thomas Cup triumph in 2022. Therefore, the loss of the main Men's Doubles pair of the Indian team will affect the team's chances of striving for a good result. Without the world's top men's doubles pair, India will be led by the inexperienced Hariharan and Luban to take on the men's doubles squad, and no new pairs will be called up to fill the void.

Without Rankireddy/Shetty, India will face a tough challenge in Group D, as Indonesia, Denmark and England are not good at stubble in the same group, and it will be difficult for India to fight for the top two to advance to the last eight.
Not only did India lose their number one men's doubles player in this year's Su Cup, but earlier on, the team's top women's doubles team Theresa and Gayatri (ranked 10th in the world) also withdrew due to injury. The Indian team can only let the young women's doubles Priya and Sruti take over the burden of women's doubles. In the absence of the main force of the men's and women's doubles, the Indian team can only rely on men's singles Lakshya Sen and Burano, women's singles Sindhu and mixed doubles Truf and Tanisha in this Su Cup, hoping to bring surprises to the Indian team.

In the last three editions of the Su Cup (2019, 2021 and 2023), India have all been eliminated in the group stage, and the last time they reached the last eight was in 2017, when they lost 0-3 to China.