Danish shuttler Mia Blichfeldt lashed out at the poor playing conditions at the ongoing India Open 2025 in New Delhi, stating the badminton players had to play and train in smog and with bird shitting on the counts. The world no.23, who was competing in the women’s singles, bowled out in round of 16 against Zhi Yi Wang of China. 

Taking to Instagram, Blichfeldt detailed the problems the shuttlers had to face and also revealed that for the second year running she fell ill, thus ruing stated that the playing 

Blichfeldt, who had lost in the women’s singles second round on Thursday, on Saturday posted a critique of stadium conditions as well the pollution in the national capital, ruing that all the preparation for the tournament went to waste, because she fell ill at the tournament for the second year running.