Lucknow: The Olympic medal twice the Sindhu PV will try to recover from the unexpected semi-final loss in India Open and ended the dry drought in Syed Modi International, which began here on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old from Hyderabad was fine on track to win his first title since the 2019 World Championship victory last week before Supanida Katethong in Thailand destroyed him with a three-match victory in India Open.
Sindhu, who has completed runners-up in the Swiss Open and World Tour final last year, will hope to change everything around this week when he started his campaign against his compatriot asked Hemanth.
Indians will itchy to complete the score against supanida, which tends to face again in the semifinals at Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium here.
Canada second seed Michelle Li, a commonwealth games silver medalist, will be one of the strong competitors for a title in a woman’s single, who also has the eighth seed Polish Jordan Hart, the second seed of Iris Wang of Usa and the fifth seed Russia Kosetskaya.
Men’s Double Pair Satwikaraj Ranking and Chirag Shetty has decided to give a Super 300 tournament to Miss after claiming Maiden India they opened the Super 500 crown.
Lakshya Sen, who secured the first title of Super 500 in New Delhi on Sunday, is also likely to follow the coat after playing continuously since October last year.
Among other things, the World Championship Fireplace forecasters and superior-seeded Kidambi Srikanth was also unlikely to compete this week because he underwent a quarantine of ten days after withdrawing from the main draw last week after the positive results of Covid-19.
The third seed B Sai Praneth, who has withdraw from India Open after positive testing, also awaits the RT-PCR test results, while Ashwini Ponnappa and Manu Attri have not recovered from the virus and will miss the tournament.
Ashwini is part of the top women’s double pair, while Manu and B Sumeteth Reddy are seeded third in the men’s doubles event.
On the comeback track, the former Top-10 player H S player provides a good account about himself before being stopped by Sen 20 years in the quarter-finals last week.
Prannoy Seed Fifth would hope to go deep in the lottery this week when he opened his campaign against Ukraine Danyl Bosniuk.
London Bronze Olympic Medal Saina Nehwal, fourth seed, will also test his fitness when he takes Tereza Švábíková Czech Republic in the opening round.
He lost in the second half last week.
There are a number of other Indians in Single men, such as Sourabh Sourabh Verma, fourth Sameer Verma – who he is still recovering from a calf muscle injury – Dey Subhank and children like Kiran George, Mithun Manjunath and Priyanshu Rajawat.
On a single woman too, Aakarshi Kashyap, who had reached the quarter-finals last week, would look for a good run when he faced fellow Mugdha India agreed in the opening.
Malvika Bansod and Ashmita Chalih will be tied up in the supremacy battle in the opening round, while Samiya Imad Faroqui, Iraq Sharma and Sri Krishna Priya Kukarvalli will be the leading Indian in action.
Fourth seed Ashwini Bhat K and Shikha Gautam will see to install a good show in a woman’s double.
There is likely more withdrawals and more clear images will appear only after the manager’s meeting later on.