Tokyo: Five years after securing silver on his Olympic debut, Wornging World Champion PV Sindhu will lead the Indian search to bring home a gold medal that is difficult to understand when the Tokyo Games badminton competition starts on Saturday.
The amazing road in Rio which made him toast the nation ended with a loss of intestine in the final, and Sindhu would desperate to put his hand on gold this time when he started a campaign in Group J, which also consisted of Cheung Ngan Yi Hong Kong (rank to- 34) and KSENIA Polycarpova Israel (rank 58).
Sindhu will play his opening match on Sunday, while Soli Praneeth’s Sensriots B colleague and a pair of Chirag Shetty and the Satwikaraj Ranking will take action on Saturday.
As a 21-year-old child, Sindhu has entered the Rio game with a reputation for creating a flutter but he is not considered a prospect of medal.
But this time he was one of the favorites for gold, especially in the absence of defending champions Carolina Marin, who missed the match due to injury.
Because Rio, Sindhu has won a medal at each of the big ticket events, including silver at the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in 2018, a gold and silver in the World World Finals and became world champion in 2019, after reaching the final three times in the edition previously.
With a Pandemic Covid-19 postponing the Olympics, Sindhu left for training assignments to London by 2020 before returning to the country to train under the new foreign coach Tae Sang, who had worked widely on his defense in recent months.
“I think the pandemic (break during) is very useful because I have to learn more and more focused on my techniques and skills,” said the world No.
6 of Hyderabad, which will be open to Polycarpova.
Talking about lottery, Sindhu, sixth seed, said: “This is a good draw in the group stage.
But this is an Olympics and it won’t be easy, every point is very important.” Everyone will be above.
Shape, I hope I do it well.
Every match is important so I will sign a match with a match.
“Sindhu is expected to meet Mia Blichfeldt in Pre-5 Number 5 Akane Yamaguchi in the quarter, except all hiccups in the previous match.
The world No.
1 Taiwan Taiwan Tzu Ying, who parks consider his most fierce rival, may stand on his way to the semifinals.
Sindhu has defeated a Chinese Taipei star in the pre-quarters of the Rio game.
On a single man, Praneph will hope to make a dream Olympic debut when he starts his campaign against Isreal’s Misha Zilberman, ranked 47th.
The 13th seed Indian must also pass through the world No.
29 Mark Caljouw Dutch to Group D and take the winner of Group C.
Praneeth, who has won 2017 Singapore open before claiming the World Championship Bronze in 2019, has been hampered by fitness problems in his career.
But he has done it in recent months.
Children aged 28 The year from Hyderabad will look better than the quarter finish.
Couple Kidambi S.
Rikanth and Parupalli Kashyap at previous game.
In men’s doubles, Chirag and Satwik will bring India’s hopes of the first medal that has ever been in the category but the task will be difficult, considering they have submitted a difficult lottery.
World Pair No.
10, who pocketed the Indian men’s silver medal in 2018 Commonwealth Games before winning the title in Thailand Super 500 and reached the final in France Super 750 in 2019, had to compete with a higher ranking pair in the group.
the stage itself.
Duo India will open on Saturday against the world of China Taipei No.
3 Lee and Wang Chi Lin.
They also had to fight against a pair of Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Marcus Fernaldi and Duo Marcus Fernaldi from Ben Lane and Sean Vendy, ranked 18th, in the stage group.
In a double, the top two teams in the group passed the quarter-finals.
Chirag and Satwik will meet groups of runner-ups, which have the second seed Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan, if they are top group A, while finishing second place will see them take the Group B winner, where the favorite house Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe have been withdrawn , “Chirag and Satwik, though, have a difficult lottery but I see them as a potential hope for medals,” said Head of the National Badminton coach Pullela Gopichand.