The men’s pair of Satwiksai Raj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who recently won bronze medal at the World Championship, will once again lead India’s challenge in the Hong Kong Super 500 Badminton tournament starting on Tuesday.
In third place in the world rankings, the pair won their second bronze medal in the World Championships due to brilliant performance in Paris. The pair has been a consistent performance with continuity in the current season. He has reached the semi -finals of several competitions including India, Malaysia, China and Singapore on the BWF tour.
The eighth seed will start their campaign against Chinese Taipei’s Chiang Ciah and Wang Chi-Lin. Two -time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu indicated a return to the form by defeating Wang Jhi Yi of China in the World Championship. His campaign, however, did not move beyond the quarter -finals.
In Hong Kong, Sindhu will have a challenge to perform a better performance in his first match against Denmark’s line Christfarsen. The US Open champion Ayush Shetty, one of the emerging stars of this year, has a difficult contest against China’s Lu Guang Zhu in the first round. Former World No. Six Lakshya Sen has been looking for rhythm since missing a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. He will try to gain confidence against Wang Tju Wei of Chinese Taipei.
The 24 -year -old player has been troubled by injury and defeat in close matches this year. HS Prannoy, who faced defeat in a tough match against Anders Antonsen of Denmark in Paris, will once again have a difficult challenge. He will start his campaign against Japan’s fifth seed Kodai Naroka.
In the women’s singles, Anupama Upadhyay will face Japan’s fourth seed Tomoka Miyajaki, while Rakshita Ramraj will compete with former world champion and fifth seed Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand. In the doubles, the male pair of Hariharan Amardakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rithinas Bapati and the female pair of Rutparna and Svetparna Panda will also try their luck.
The mixed pair of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Krasto, who arrived in the quarter-finals of the World Championship, will face Chinese Taipei’s Chenn Cheng Kuan and Suyin-Hui, while Rohan Kapoor and mattress will be a second preferred China’s Feng Yan Jhe and Huang Dong Ping’s challenge in front of the mixed pair of Rutwika Shivani.
Former world number one Kidambi Srikanth, Tharun Mannapalli, Kiran George and S Shankar Muthusamy Subramanian qualifiers will have a challenge to make it to the main round through qualifiers. Srikanth is the only Indian single player to reach the Super 500 final this year. He was runner -up in Malaysia Masters.
