Singles ace HS Prannoy will spearhead the Indian problem on the Indonesian Masters Tremendous 500 badminton event starting in Jakarta on Tuesday after the pull-out of crack doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty Having completed runners-up in back-to-back tournaments of Malaysia Tremendous 1000 and India Open Tremendous 750, the reigning Asian Video games champions have given the event a miss with an eye fixed on their workload with a gruelling season forward of them. The duo’s absence might have taken some sheen of the event, however world No. 9 Prannoy will look to maintain the Indian flag excessive persevering with his constant run.
Prannoy is barely seeded Indian participant at No. 7 within the males’s singles draw of 32 as he’ll start his marketing campaign in opposition to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore, in opposition to whom the Indian has a 4-1 win-loss report.
The world No. 11 Yew’s solitary win in opposition to Prannoy was on the 2021 World Championships and since then the Indian has gained twice in a row with the final coming in bronze-medal profitable run on the final 12 months’s World Championship.
In addition to the that coveted bronze medal, Prannoy gained the Malaysia Masters and completed second within the Australian Open final 12 months.
He has been at his constant greatest and had a last-four after being ousted by eventual champion Yu Qi Shi of China within the Indian Open final week.
Earlier than that, Prannoy made a gap spherical exit within the Malaysia Open Tremendous 1000.
The opposite Indian, who will probably be in focus will probably be world No. 19 Lakshya Sen, trying to finish his opening spherical jinx, when he’s up in opposition to Weng Hong Yang of China.
The world No. 16 Chinese language has a 3-2 win-loss ratio in opposition to the younger Indian and goes into the match on the again of his Malaysia Open win lower than two weeks again.
Since his Canada Open triumph final 12 months, Sen has been on a downward spiral and has capped eight opening spherical exits in a row.
Final week, Sen misplaced to his Indian teammate Priyanshu Rajawat within the Indian Open as the previous World No 8 will look to seek out his mojo.
World Bo. 25 Kidambi Srikanth can be in fray and can face Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia, whereas thirtieth ranked Rajawat will probably be up in opposition to Rasmus Gemke of Denmark.
In Chirag and Satwik’s absence, MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila would be the lone Indians in fray in males’s doubles as they are going to be up in opposition to Malaysia’s Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin within the opening spherical.
No Indians will probably be fray within the ladies’s doubles and combined doubles occasions.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Matters talked about on this article
