HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen To Lead Indian Cost At China Masters Tremendous 750
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Indian shuttlers, together with comeback man HS Prannoy, will eye a superb present on the China Masters — the season’s final BWF Tremendous 750 occasion — starting on Tuesday, in pursuit of precious rating factors within the race to the Paris Olympics. Prannoy, who misplaced within the second spherical on the Japan Open Tremendous 500 after returning to motion following a again damage, will as soon as once more be the highest Indian identify in males’s singles within the competitors. He’ll face Taiwan’s Chou Tien Chen, who had defeated him within the final assembly in Japan. The world No. 17 Lakshya Sen and world No. 23 Kidambi Srikanth, who’re preventing to be inside the highest 16 by April 28 subsequent yr to qualify for the Olympics, will even be in motion.
Following his first-round exit final week after a loss to Japan’s world championships silver medallist Kodai Naroaka, Sen will hope for a greater outing when he faces seventh seed Shi Yuqi of China.
With simply 4 quarterfinal finishes within the season, Srikanth has not precisely regarded the half and has usually been responsible of falling in a pool of error. The previous world No.1 skipped the Japan Masters final week and can face fourth seed Thai Kunlavut Vitidsarn, the reigning world champion.
Priyanshu Rajawat, alternatively, will meet Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto in his opener.
The highest seeded males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who’re using excessive on the success of an unprecedented yr which noticed them bagging gold medal on the Asian Video games, will even goal a fruitful outing.
Satwik and Chirag will hope final week’s first-round exit was only a blip as they tackle English pair Ben Lane and Sean Vendy of their opener.
In girls’s doubles, Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly withdrew whereas Panda sisters — Rutaparna and Swetaparna — shall be within the fray.
Aakarshi Kashyap is the one Indian competing in girls’s singles, taking over China’s Zhang Yi Man.
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