Calgary [Canada], July 4 (ANI): India’s star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen will spearhead India’s problem on the Canada Open 2023 badminton match beginning Tuesday in Calgary, as per Olympics.com.
After lacking the Taipei Open 2023, Sindhu will begin afresh within the match.
The Twelfth-ranked Sindhu has didn’t make a mark prior to now three BWF World Tour occasions as she didn’t cross the second rounds. The former world champion was knocked out within the spherical of 16 of the Indonesia Open after exiting the Singapore Open and the Thailand Open within the first spherical.
In this season, Sindhu reached the ultimate solely as soon as on the Madrid Masters 2023. Sindhu additionally made the semi-finals of the Malaysia Masters. The 27-year-old will open her girls’s singles marketing campaign towards Canada’s world No. 61 Talia Ng.
Apart from Sindhu, Tasnim Mir and Gadde Ruthvika Shivani are India’s others who will take part within the girls’s singles principal draw. Tasnim begin her marketing campaign towards Thuy Linh Nguyen of Vietnam whereas Ruthvika Shivani will face Thailand’s Supanida Katethong in her opening recreation.
In the boys’s singles occasion, world No. 19 Lakshya Sen can be India’s solely badminton participant in the principle draw. Lakshya Sen will play Thailand’s world No. 3 Kunlavut Vitidsarn within the spherical of 32.
Parupalli Kashyap, the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion, will face German Kai Schaefer within the opening spherical of qualifying. In the {qualifications}, S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian and B Sai Praneeth will even begin.
HS Prannoy and Kidambi Srikanth have skipped the Canada occasion. India’s prime doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, who gained the Indonesia Open final month, have additionally given the match a miss.
Meanwhile within the males’s doubles, the pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala can be India’s solely problem. The duo will play the French pair of Julien Maio and William Villeger within the opener.
In the ladies’s doubles, the Indian pair Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa will tackle the Australian duo of Kaitlyn Ea and Gronya Somerville. The pair of Rutaparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda will even begin in the principle draw.
B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa will play the Japanese duo of Yuki Kaneko and Misaki Matsutomo within the first spherical of blended doubles. Sai Pratheek Ok and Tanisha Crasto will begin within the qualifiers.
The Canada Open 2023 is the fourth Super 500 match of the 2023 BWF World Tour calendar after Indonesia Masters, Malaysia Masters and the Thailand Open. (ANI)