Tokyo Olympics: Easy draw for Sindhu and Praneeth; Tough job for Chirag-satvik

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Rio Games silver medalists and reigning world champions PV Sindhu and B Sai Praneeth have been given straightforward attracts for the Tokyo Olympics beginning July 23.

Sindhu has been seeded sixth in Group J of girls’s singles and Praneeth has been seeded thirteenth in Group D of males’s singles competitors.

The world’s tenth males’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will compete in Group A.

Sindhu will face world quantity 34 Cheung Ngan Yi of Hong Kong and Ksenia Polikarpova of Israel, quantity 58, within the league stage, whereas Praneeth will get forward of world quantity 29 Mark Caljouw of the Netherlands and forty seventh seed Misha Zilberman of Israel. Will occur.

Chirag and Satwiksairaj, nevertheless, acquired a good draw, which was introduced by the BWF on Thursday.

The Indian pair will face high seeded Indonesian pair of Kevin Sanjay Sukamuljo and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, world quantity three Li Yang and Wang Chi Lin of Chinese Taipei and England’s Ben Lane and Sean Wendy ranked 18th.

In the singles competitors, the highest gamers from every group will qualify for the knock-out levels.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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