PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen to lead Indian challenge at Swiss Open 2024 Loktej Sports News
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New Delhi, March 19 (HS). Shuttlers PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen will lead the Indian challenge at the Swiss Open 2024 badminton tournament. The BWF Super 300 event begins on Tuesday at the St. Jakobshall Arena in Basel, Switzerland.
All eyes will be on two-time Olympic medalist Sindhu, who has been seeded fourth in the women’s singles category. She most recently competed at the All England Open, where she lost to world No. 1 An Se-young of the Republic of Korea in the second round. Sindhu had earlier made her comeback to the BWF World Tour by participating in the French Open, where she lost to Chen Yufei of China in the quarter-finals.
The 28-year-old Indian badminton player will start her Swiss Open campaign against German badminton player Yvonne Li. Sindhu had also faced Li in the first round of the All England Open, where the world number 26 had decided to retire after losing the first game. Akarshi Kashyap will also feature in the main draw of women’s singles while Malvika Bansod will start from the qualifiers.
In men’s singles, Lakshya Sen will be looking to continue his consecutive semi-final performances at the French Open and All-England Open. In Birmingham, Sen was eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual winner Jonathan Christie of Indonesia. World No. 18 Sen has been in great form recently and will open his campaign against Malaysia’s Leong Jun Hao. Sen has a positive record of 2-1 against his world number 36 opponent.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth will start against Wang Tzu-Wei of Chinese Taipei. Tzu-Wei is ranked 23rd in men’s singles. Priyanshu Rajawat and Kiran George will also feature in the main draw, but HS Prannoy has opted to miss the Basel tie.
World No. 1 pair and 2023 Swiss Open champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will not participate in the tournament this year. In women’s doubles, Tanisha Castro and Ashwini Ponnappa have been seeded sixth and will open their campaign against Indonesia’s Meilissa Trias, Pushpita Sari and Rachel Alesya Rose. Eighth seeds Tresa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will face American Annie Xu and Kerry Xu in the first round.
Indian team for Swiss Open 2024:
men’s singles: Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Kiran George, Priyanshu Rajawat
men’s singles qualifier: Sameer Verma, Satish Kumar Karunakaran
women’s singles: PV Sindhu, Akarshi Kashyap
women’s singles qualifier: Malvika Bansod
men’s doubles qualifiers: Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathy
women’s doubles: Rutaparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda, Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa, Tressa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, Ashwini Bhatt and Shikha Gautam, Priya Konjengbam and Shruti Mishra
women’s doubles qualifier: Simran Singhi and Ritika Thakar
Mixed Doubles Qualifier: Satish Kumar Karunakaran and Adya Variyath, Reddy B. Sumeeth and Reddy Sikki.
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