New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): Indian shuttler PV Sindhu will lock horns with Bulgaria’s Kaloyana Nalbantova, whereas Lakshya Sen will play Shi Yuqi of China of their respective spherical one matches of the BWF World Championships 2025, which is able to happen later this month.
Organised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the BWF World Championships is essentially the most prestigious badminton competitors held yearly, barring the Olympic years, as per Olympics.com.
It provides essentially the most badminton world rating factors together with the Olympics and crowns the senior world champions of a specific calendar yr.
The attracts for the Badminton World Championships 2025, scheduled to be held in Paris between August 25 and 31, had been introduced on Wednesday.
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, fifteenth within the girls’s singles rankings, is the only Indian within the girls’s part and can face world No. 66 and two-time European junior champion Kaloyana Nalbantova of Bulgaria in her opening spherical match.
Sindhu is a former world champion, having gained the ladies’s singles title in 2019.
The Indian badminton participant additionally completed runner-up within the two years previous her world title and bagged bronze medals in 2013 and 2014.
Sindhu, nonetheless, has struggled for type within the 2025 season. Her finest run on the BWF World Tour this yr was a quarter-final end on the Indian Open again in January.
Lakshya Sen, twenty first within the males’s singles badminton rankings, was handed a tricky opening spherical draw towards world No. 1 Shi Yuqi of the People’s Republic of China.
A semi-finalist on the Paris 2024 Olympics, Lahshya gained a bronze medal on the 2021 badminton world championships in Huelva.
The different Indian within the males’s singles draw, world No. 34 HS Prannoy, will tackle world Joakim Oldorff of Finland. HS Prannoy is a world championships bronze medallist from 2023, as per Olympics.com.
India’s prime doubles duo Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty acquired a gap spherical bye, whereas Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruben Kumar will meet the Chinese Taipei pair Liu Kuang Heng and Yang Po Han.
The winner of the match between Hariharan Amsakarunan-Ruben Kumar and Liu Kuang Heng-Yang Po Han will face Satwik-Chirag within the second spherical.
Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy had been the primary Indian pair to win a medal within the males’s doubles occasion on the badminton world championships after settling for a bronze in Tokyo again in 2022.
The girls’s doubles draw pitted Rutaparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda towards Bulgaria’s Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva, whereas Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra will face French duo Margot Lambert and Camille Pognante within the first spherical.
World No. 17 Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto acquired an opening-round bye within the blended doubles part.
India’s different entry within the blended doubles, Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Gadde, will tackle Ng Weng Chi and Leong Iok Chong of Macau, China.
India gained a complete of 14 medals – one gold, 4 silver and 9 bronze within the BWF World Championships prior to now.
Prakash Padukone gained India’s first medal within the BWF World Championships in 1983 when he bagged bronze.
BWF World Championships 2025 draw for Indian shuttlers:
Men’s singles:
Lakshya Sen vs Shi Yuqi (CHN).
HS Prannoy vs Joakim Oldorff (FIN).
Women’s singles:
PV Sindhu vs Kaloyana Nalbantova (BUL).
Men’s doubles:
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty – Bye (1st spherical).
Hariharan Amsakarunan / Ruben Kumar vs Liu Kuang Heng / Yang Po Han (TPE).
Women’s doubles:
Rutaparna Panda / Swetaparna Panda vs Gabriela Stoeva / Stefani Stoeva (BUL).
Priya Konjengbam / Shruti Mishra vs Margot Lambert / Camille Pognante (FRA).
Mixed doubles:
Dhruv Kapila / Tanisha Crasto – Bye (1st spherical).
Rohan Kapoor / Ruthvika Gadde vs Ng Weng Chi / Leong Iok Chong (MAC). (ANI)