New Delhi. India’s star doubles badminton pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will lead India’s challenge in the Indonesia Open Super 1000 badminton tournament starting in Jakarta from Tuesday. The tournament has a prize money of $ 1,450,000. After achieving fitness, the world’s former number one Indian pair reached the semi -finals of Singapore Open last week. And now their efforts will be to reach further in this tournament. So that they can regain the trophy won in 2023.
Currently, Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty are ranked 27th in the ranking but after reaching the semi -finals of Singapore, they are expected to reach close to the top 20. The Indian pair will start their campaign in Indonesia Appean against the Indonesian pair of Leo Roli Carnando and Bags Maulana. The sattvic health problems and lamp back injury were away from the game for the past few weeks. However, the star couple showed their talent by defeating the number one pair of Fai and Noor Izuddin from Goh of Malaysia while reaching the semi -finals last week.
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At the same time, two -time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu will now target to reach this tournament after a continuous poor performance this year. The 29 -year -old player suffered a hamstring injury during training in Guwahati in February, due to which she was out of the Asia team championship. Since the return, she lost the tournament after losing players like Thui Linh Angueen, daughter Kusuma Vardani and Kim Ga Yun.
Last week, however, this champion of the 2022 Commonwealth Games had shown a glimpse of her former performance before losing to China’s Tokyo Olympic champion Champion Champion Champion in the second round. Sindhu will again try to achieve the same rhythm with the new coach of Indonesia, Iravanyah etc. In the first round, he will face former Japanese world champion Nozomi Okuhara. Among the other players in the women’s singles, Anupama Upadhyay will face Korea’s Kim Ga Un, Rakshita Shri Ramraj will face Thailand’s left -handed player Supanida Katethong and Malvika Bansod will face Indonesia’s daughter Kusuma Verdani.
In the men’s singles, 2023 World Championship bronze medalist HS Prannoy would like to get a form against Indonesia’s Alvi Farhan. At the same time, 2021 World Championship bronze medalist Lakshya Sen is recovering from a bench injury, due to which he had to withdraw from the Malaysia tournament last week. This Almora player has been struggling to get the top form since reaching the semi -finals at the Paris Olympics.
In the initial match of the tournament, he has to face Chinese world number one player Shi You Ki. Kiran George will start his campaign against former world champion Loh Keen Yu. The pair of Trisa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand are returning from the injury in the women’s doubles and will face Japan’s Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto pair. India will represent India in the mixed doubles, Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Krasto, Rohan Kapoor and Ruthvika Gade Shivani, Satish Karunakaran and Adya Variath and Asithi Surya and Asith Surya and Amrita Pramuthesh will perform four couples.
