Singapore (Singapore), June 5 (ANI): The Singapore Open 2023 badminton occasion will kickstart from Tuesday and can go on until June 11, that includes a few of India’s finest badminton gamers, together with PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy.
The Singapore Open, the second Super 750 occasion of the season following the India Open, is the twelfth competitors on the 2023 BWF World Tour, as per Olympics.com.
PV Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medalist who’s presently ranked thirteenth within the ladies’s singles BWF World rankings, will try to rebound in Singapore after shedding within the opening spherical of the simply completed Thailand Open. The former world champion shuttler misplaced within the first spherical for the fourth time this yr.
Akane Yamaguchi, the highest seed and present world No. 1 from Japan who received the Malaysia Masters final month, will face the 27-year-old PV Sindhu within the opening spherical of her marketing campaign.
Former world No. 1 Saina Nehwal will start her marketing campaign towards Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon, who’s ranked eighth on the earth and the seventh seed. Supanida Katethong of Thailand can be Aakarshi Kashyap’s opponent within the opening spherical.
HS Prannoy, who received the Malaysia Masters final month to start out his BWF World Tour championships tally, will compete within the males’s singles occasion at Singapore meet after skipping the Thailand Open. HS Prannoy, who’s ranked eighth on the earth, will compete towards third-seeded Kodai Naraoka of Japan.
Lakshya Sen, the winner of the Commonwealth Games 2022, who final week superior to the semi-finals of the Thailand Open, will start his competitors towards Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei.
Kidambi Srikanth, a former world primary, will tackle Thailand’s Kantaphon Wangcharoen in his first match. The 2023 Orlean’s Masters champion Priyanshu Rajawat may even be competing.
In the spherical of 32, the fourth-ranked males’s doubles group from India, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, will tackle Akira Koga and Taichi Saito of Japan. In March, the Indian doubles group took house the Swiss Open 2023 title.
Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand from India, who missed the Malaysia Masters and the Thailand Open, will play Yeung Nga Ting and Yeung Pui Lam from Hong Kong within the ladies’s doubles first spherical.
The Singapore Indoor Stadium will host the BWF Super 750 occasion. (ANI)