Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has pulled out of the Australian Open Super 300 badminton match beginning right here on Tuesday. Thus, Srikanth together with Lakshya Sen and doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bowed out of the US$180,000 match. Srikanth, ranked tenth within the Race to Guangzhou rankings, wanted to win the match to have any hope of qualifying for the season-ending World Tour Finals in December. But the 29-year-old from Guntur, who claimed a bronze medal on the Commonwealth Games and in addition performed a heroic function in India’s epic Thomas Cup win this yr, determined to present it a miss.
Srikanth had reached the semi-finals in his final match on the Hilo Open in Saarbrücken, Germany. The Indian had additionally completed within the final 4 on the Korea Open and the Swiss Open. His return means HS Prannoy would be the sole consultant of India within the World Tour Finals, particularly after double Olympic medalist PV Sindhu pulled out of the Guangzhou occasion on Sunday.
India’s problem on the Australian Open shall be led by Sameer Verma, who’s making a comeback from a protracted harm. He will open his marketing campaign towards Nathan Tang.
Sameer, a former World No. The 11, had gained three BWF tournaments – Swiss Open, Hyderabad Open and Syed Modi International – in 2018 to qualify for the World Tour Finals, however then misplaced his momentum, adopted by a COVID-induced break. His return final yr was short-lived as he needed to retire from the Denmark Open quarter-finals resulting from a calf harm. He additionally had issues together with his hip and shoulder. He regarded in good kind throughout his three-match win at World No. 1. 8 Anthony Sinisuka Ginting on the French Open.
Mithun Manjunath, who had reached the finals of the Orleans Masters Super 100 occasion and two worldwide challenges in Nagpur and Bengaluru, will face second seed Loh Keen Yew of Singapore.
In ladies’s singles, Tanya Hemant will face Malaysia’s Goh Jin Wei and Anvesha Gowda will face native participant Pitchaya Alicia Wiravong. In doubles, the ladies’s pair of Simran Singhi and Ritika Thaker and the boys’s pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathy can even be within the fray.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
