PV Sindhu will pioneer Indian challenges when Badminton starts on Saturday.
Five years after silver at the Rio Olympics, Sindhu is now considered a prospect of a gold medal.
Hyderabadi has got the tag of ‘big tournament players’ with five world championship medals, including gold, and aims to become the first Indian woman to win a back-to-back medal at the Olympics.
The men’s doubles pair Satwikaraj Ranking and Chirag Shetty will start the Indian campaign on Saturday, when Sai Praneeth will also take action against Misha Zilberman from Israel.
Sindhu’s first match against Cheung Ngan Yi from Hong Kong was scheduled for 6.40 in the morning on Sunday.
World Champion Is Expected to Top Group J, who also has the world of Israel No.
58 Ksenia Polycarpova.
Only one player from each group went to the next round in Single, while two double teams made the quarter-finals of the group stage.
Sindhu is likely to face Mia Blichfeldt from Denmark in the round of 16, and will be a clear Sindhu.
However, he would not have Pullela Gopichand coach in his corner.
He has been practicing with Park Tae Sang from South Korea for the past two years.
Sindhu’s first real challenge is likely to be the quarter-final with Yamaguchi’s will from Japan.
He can meet the world No.1 Tzu Ying from Taipei China in the semifinals.
In other parts of the lottery, Chen Yufei China, Nozomi Okuhara and Ratchanok Intanon Nozomi Okuhara and Thailand will fight to reach the final.
In single men, Sai has a challenging task to pass the Dutch Mark Caljouw in the group stage.
He might face Kento Momota from Japan in the quarter-finals.
Satwik-Chirag is in Group A with World No.1 Marcus Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya and the World No.3 Lee / Wang Chi-Lin.
They will start against Leewang on Saturday.
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