Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu, World Championships runner-up Kidambi Srikanth and bronze winner Lakshya Sen would be the high attracts on the 2022 India Open to be held within the nationwide capital from January 11-16.
The USD 400,000 prize cash event, to be held with out spectators as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, is a part of the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500.
Also, the event shall be headlining with world champion Loh Keen Yew.
Singapore’s Yu, who not too long ago made historical past in Huelva, Spain, by changing into the primary unseeded participant within the open period to win the World Championship, will lead the worldwide line-up within the opener of the 2022 BWF season.
Former world No 1 Srikanth has been seeded high within the males’s singles class, adopted by 2019 World Championships bronze medalist B Sai Praneeth.
Sen, the youngest Indian male shuttler to win a World Championship medal, HS Prannoy, Parupalli Kashyap and Sameer Verma are amongst different Indian individuals together with Indonesian veteran Tommy Sugiarto.
World No 7 Sindhu has been seeded high within the girls’s singles class, which incorporates London Olympics bronze medalist Saina Nehwal, who received the title in 2015, together with different younger Indian shuttlers together with Malvika Bansod, Akarshi Kashyap and Ashmita Chaliha. With.
While the highest worldwide individuals embrace world quantity 12 Busanan Ongbamrungphan of Thailand and Jia Min Yeo of Singapore.
The star Indian pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy would be the predominant attraction within the males’s doubles class. However, they’re set to face powerful competitors because the line-up contains three-time world champion and world No. 2 Indonesian pair of Mohamed Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in addition to one other Indonesian pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Riyan Ardianto , which is at the moment ranked eighth on this planet.
In girls’s doubles, world quantity 9 pair of Thailand’s Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Ravinda Prajongjai shall be among the many high names as Gayatri P and Trisa Jolly together with Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy lead the Indian problem.
The combined doubles competitors may even see the participation of three top-20 pairs.
The eleventh version of the event, which is all set to make a comeback after a two-year break as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, shall be performed on the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall contained in the Indira Gandhi Stadium underneath strict COVID protocols.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
