Badminton Asia Championship: Sindhu and her teammates’ path to medal is difficult

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Ningbo (China): India’s star players, including PV Sindhu, will have to face the challenge of some of the world’s best players in their quest for a medal at the Badminton Asia Championship, starting with the qualifiers here on Tuesday.

With the last-minute withdrawal of world number one and defending champion pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, India’s medal hopes in this continental individual championship now rest on the singles players. This is the last major tournament to award Olympic qualification ranking points, which has increased its importance and this week will see some tough matches in the tournament.

Sindhu will get a chance to test herself once again in a tournament featuring top players like top seed Ann Se Young, Olympic champion Yufei, Tai Tzu Niang, Akane Yamaguchi and He Baijiao. Former world champion Sindhu will start her campaign against world number 33 Goh Jin Wei of Malaysia.

Akarshi Kashyap has to face Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan in the first round. In the women’s doubles, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa will face the Indonesian pair of Fabriana Dwipuji Kusuma and Amalia Kahaya Pratiwi while Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will start their campaign against the fourth seeded Chinese pair of Liu Sheng Shiyu and Tan Ning.

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