India’s two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu will look to offer her finest on the massive stage as she opens her title protection on the BWF World Championships beginning right here on Sunday.
Sindhu has been in spectacular type as she clinched her second silver medal within the season-ending World Tour Finals after three consecutive semi-final finishes on the French Open, Indonesia Masters and Indonesia Open.
The 26-year-old from Hyderabad will now look to finish the season defending her maiden World Championship title, which she claimed two years in the past in Basel, Switzerland.
The event has misplaced lots of sheen with the return of the complete Indonesian contingent and different elite gamers like two-time winner Kento Momota.
The girls’s singles discipline can be left vacant after three-time champion Carolina Marin and 2017 winner Nozomi Okuhara withdrew.
It would be the first time in her profession that London Olympics bronze medalist and 2015 silver medalist Saina Nehwal can be out of the World Championships on account of a number of accidents.
While Sindhu will love her probabilities, retaining the title will nonetheless be loads simpler mentioned than finished as she is going to nonetheless face ninth-seeded Thai Pornpawee Chochuwong, Chinese Taipei’s high seed Tai Tzu Ying and Korea’s teen sensation An Seong. To do.
Ek Seyong has been in glorious type as she claimed back-to-back titles on the Indonesia Masters, Indonesia Open and have become the primary girl from her nation to take action earlier than successful her maiden World Tour Finals title.
Sindhu, who acquired a bye within the first spherical, will face Martina Repiska, who was additionally backed by her first spherical rival Russelli Hartavan.
A win would put him face-to-face with Pornpawee Chochuwong, who has crushed the Indian twice within the final two conferences.
If Sindhu will get the Thai cross, she is prone to be pitted towards Tai Tzu, who has proved her nemesis with a 14-5 one-on-one report together with victories within the final 4 conferences.
In males’s singles, twelfth seed Kidambi Srikanth, who was struggling to get a visa, will face Spain’s Pablo Abian, whereas Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth will face Dutch Mark Caljouw.
Former high 10 participant HS Prannoy can be up towards eighth seed NG Ka Long Angus and younger Lakshya Sen’s first-round rival has additionally pulled out.
The males’s doubles discipline additionally completed with the highest two seeds – each from Indonesia – lacking in motion.
Eighth seeded Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty acquired a bye within the first spherical and can face winners Lee Jae-Hui and Yang Po-Huan and Fabrisio Farias and Franceselton Farias in doubles.
The girls’s doubles pair of N Sikki Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa will tackle 14th seeds Liu Xuan Xuan and Xia Yu Ting after their first spherical opponents pulled out.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
