Nursing Injury, Intanon Hopes to Peak for World Championships
World No.5 Ratchanok Intanon, who is nursing a shoulder injury while making a tentative return to competitive badminton after the Olympics, said she was hoping to get fully fit in time for the TotalEnergies BWF World…
· DEV SUKUMAR
World No.5 Ratchanok Intanon, who is nursing a shoulder injury while making a tentative return to competitive badminton after the Olympics, said she was hoping to get fully fit in time for the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2021.
The Thai had to deal with the trauma of losing her mother after the Olympics, and the right shoulder problem arose during training. She retired early in her first match on her comeback, against Chen Yu Fei in the Uber Cup, and lost her first match at the VICTOR Denmark Open last week to compatriot Phittayaporn Chaiwan.
Today, after making the quarterfinals of the YONEX French Open 2021 with a comfortable second round win over Pai Yu Po, Intanon said the shoulder was getting better each day, and hoped to peak for the World Championships.