Hong Kong: Contemporary from their World Championships bronze medal, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will as soon as once more spearhead India’s problem on the Hong Kong Tremendous 500 badminton event, starting right here on Tuesday.
The world No. 3 duo, who produced a superlative present in Paris to clinch their second Worlds bronze, have been India’s most constant performers this season with a number of semifinal finishes on the BWF Tour, together with occasions in India, Malaysia, China and Singapore.
The eighth seeds will open their marketing campaign towards Chinese language Taipei’s Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Wang Chi-Lin.
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, who confirmed glimpses of her prime type on the Worlds with a demolition of China’s Wang Zhi Yi earlier than falling within the quarterfinals, will look to construct on that efficiency when she faces Denmark’s Line Christophersen within the opener.
US Open champion Ayush Shetty, one of many rising stars this 12 months, has a tricky first-round conflict towards China’s Lu Guang Zu.
Former world No. 6 Lakshya Sen, nonetheless trying to find rhythm after his fourth-place end on the Paris Olympics, will look to regain confidence when he takes on Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese language Taipei.
The 24-year-old has been tormented by slim losses and niggles, and suffered a first-round exit on the Worlds towards prime seed Shi Yu Qi.
HS Prannoy, who went down combating towards Denmark’s Anders Antonsen in Paris, faces one other stiff problem towards Japan’s fifth seed Kodai Naraoka within the first spherical.
In ladies’s singles, Anupama Upadhyaya meets fourth seed Tomoka Miyazaki of Japan, whereas Rakshitha Ramraj runs into Thailand’s former world champion and fifth seed Ratchanok Intanon.
Amongst doubles, the lads’s pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi and the ladies’s duo of Rutaparna and Swetaparna Panda will likely be in motion.
In combined doubles, Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto, quarterfinalists on the Worlds, face Chinese language Taipei’s Chen Cheng Kuan and Hsu Yin-Hui, whereas Rohan Kapoor and Gadde Ruthvika Shivani tackle second seeds Feng Yan Zhe and Huang Dong Ping of China.
The qualifiers characteristic an all-Indian conflict between former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth and Tharun Mannepalli. Srikanth stays the one Indian to have reached a Tremendous 500 last this 12 months, ending runner-up on the Malaysia Masters.
Kiran George will tackle Malaysia’s Cheam June Wei, whereas S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian faces Canada’s Wang Yue Dangle.
