Bali: Olympic Medal Twice Sindhu PV and former world number one Kidambi Srikanth will look for consistent performances when they compete in USD 850,000 Open Indonesia starting here on Tuesday.
Only a few days after finishing their semifinals in Indonesia Super 750 Masters, the top two Indian shuttlers will start their campaign at the Super 1000 World Tour in their efforts to the title.
Sindhu, a ruling world champion, last reached the final in Swiss Open.
He approached the Clash Thread summit by reaching the semifinals on three occasions, including the last two tournaments.
Last week, the Sindhu Campaign was cut short by Yamaguchi Japan’s will with a direct victory and India will look quickly recovered from losses.
The third seed Indian will start his campaign against Aya Ohori Japan and he tends to face the sixth seed Canada Michelle Li in the quarter-finals if he can pass early rounds.
Srikanth, who has claimed four titles in 2017, has regained several forms with two back-to-back semi-final finishes at Hylo Open and Masters Indonesia last week and he will desperate to continue his good journey and break his drought title.
Srikanth was cheated by Anders Anconsen of Denmark last Saturday in the semifinals and he would try to put that disappointment when he faced HS Prannoy, who would be itchy to complete the score after being defeated by his compatriot last week.
Prannoy, who fell with Covid-19 years ago, showed a glimpse of him before when he scored a victory victory over the Tokyo Victor Axelsen Olympic gold medalist from Denmark last week and he would hope to continue the momentum this week.
World number 16 B Sai Praneth, who became a father recently, would also hope to reverse his shape when he met France Toma Junior Popov in the opening round.
Lakshya Sen, who is ranked fourth in the race to Guangzhou, will have the task of taming the top seed and two-time world champion Kento Momota in his opening match, while Parupalli Kashyap released from Yew Loh Kelan Singapore.
Among other Indians in a commotion, double multiply the sixth son of Satwikaraj Ranking and Chirag Shetty had got goodbye in the opening round, while Mr Arjun and Dhruv Kapila will face Choi Solgyu and Kim Won Whea.
Women’s double pair Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will cross the sword with the fifth seed Bulgarian Duo Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva.
In a mixed double, Ashwini will pair with B Sumeeth Reddy, while Sikki Reddy will play with Dhruv.
Juhy Admbell and Venkat Gaurav Prasad are also in a commotion in a mixed double.