PV Sindhu will look to recuperate from her sudden semi-final loss on the India Open and finish her title drought on the Syed Modi International, beginning right here on Tuesday, even after prime gamers like Lakshya Sen and Kidambi withdrew from the match. had misplaced a whole lot of shine. Shrikant.
Sindhu, 26, a two-time Olympic medalist, was nicely set to clinch her maiden title since her 2019 World Championship victory final week, earlier than Thailand’s left-hander Supanida Katethong smashed her hopes with a three-game victory. Had given. India Open.
Sindhu, who completed final yr’s Swiss Open and World Tour Finals runner-up, is hopeful that issues will change when she opens her marketing campaign in opposition to compatriot Tanya Hemant this week.
The former champions will probably be eager to settle her rating in opposition to Supanida, who’s more likely to face her once more within the semi-finals on the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium right here.
First Day Schedule:
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Second seed Canadian Michelle Lee, 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medalist, Polish eighth seed Jordan Hart and second seed Iris Wang of the United States additionally bowed out of the occasion.
The greatest title to overlook out on the match is World Championship bronze medalist Lakshya Sen, who pulled out of the match resulting from exhaustion after profitable his maiden Super 500 crown on the India Open on Sunday.
Men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty additionally determined to overlook the Super 300 match after profitable their maiden India Open title.
World Championships silver medalist and prime seed Kidambi Srikanth can even not compete this week as he undergoes a seven-day necessary quarantine after withdrawing from the primary draw final week, following a COVID-19 constructive consequence.
Third seed B Sai Praneeth, who was dominated out of the India Open after testing constructive for the virus, can even be lacking from motion this week, whereas Ashwini Ponnappa and Manu Attri are but to recuperate from the an infection and are dominated out of the match. Will be
Ashwini is a part of the highest seeded ladies’s doubles pair, whereas Manu and B Sumeeth Reddy have been seeded third within the males’s doubles occasion.
Yet to regain her full health, London Olympics bronze medalist Saina Nehwal, seeded fourth, additionally withdrew from the occasion. She had misplaced within the second spherical of the India Open final week.
On his means again, former top-10 participant HS Prannoy gave a very good account of himself earlier than being stopped by the 20-year-old Sen within the quarterfinals final week.
Fifth seed Prannoy will now be India’s greatest title hope as he opens his marketing campaign in opposition to Ukraine’s Danilo Bosniuk.
There are many different Indians in males’s singles, similar to seventh seed Saurabh Verma, fourth seed Sameer Verma, who continues to be recovering from a calf muscle damage, Shubhankar Dey and younger gamers like Kiran George, Mithun Manjunath and Priyanshu Rajawat. .
In ladies’s singles, Akarshi Kashyap, who reached the quarterfinals final week, will look to proceed her good run when she takes on fellow Indian Mugdha Agre.
Malvika Bansod and Ashmita Chaliha will probably be tied for supremacy within the first spherical, whereas Samia Imad Farooqui, Ira Sharma and Srikrishna Priya Kudarvalli would be the different key Indian gamers.
Fourth-seeded MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila would be the prime Indian candidates in males’s doubles.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
