This yr’s BWF World Championships can be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from August 21 to 27.
Sindhu, who gained the ladies’s singles world title in 2019, has been given a tough draw, and he or she could play Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon and Korea’s prime seed An Se Younger, who’re all clubbed within the prime half of the draw.
Sindhu is the lone Indian competing within the girls’s singles.
Satwik and Chirag, the World Championships bronze medallists in males’s doubles, attained a career-high world no.2 rating final month after profitable the Korea Open and are in prime kind.
India’s males’s singles marketing campaign can be led by in-form HS Prannoy, who’s seeded second. He’ll compete towards Kalle Koljonen of Finland.
Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth, the opposite Indians competing in males’s singles, will face Mauritius’ Georges Julien Paul and Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto within the first spherical.
Prannoy has been India’s greatest constant singles participant over the past yr, and he’s presently ranked ninth on the earth. He gained the Malaysia Masters in Might earlier than ending runner-up within the Australian Open final week.
In girls’s doubles, India have fielded two pairs. Whereas the duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand obtained a first-round bye, Ashwini Bhat Okay and Shikha Gautam can be up towards Debora Jille and Cheryl Seinen of the Netherlands.
Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Reddy will tackle the Scottish pair of Adam Corridor and Julie MacPherson within the opening spherical of blended doubles, whereas the opposite Indian mixture of Venkat Prasad and Juhi Dewangan will face Jones Ralfy Jansen and Linda Efler of Germany of their marketing campaign opener.
Whereas 64 shuttlers will compete in males’s singles, 48 will characteristic in girls’s singles. Moreover, there are 46 groups every within the three doubles occasions with the 16 highest-ranked gamers on the most recent world rating receiving seedings in all of the 5 classes.
4 Indians can be in singles competitors, whereas six pairs can be in doubles motion within the 28th version of the match.
Sindhu is the one Indian to have gained the World Championships crown to date, having clinched the title in 2019. She additionally has two silver and as many bronze medals to her title within the match.
Moreover Sindhu, former Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal has gained two World Championships medals — a silver in 2015 and bronze in 2017.
Former world no. 1 Srikanth additionally gained a silver in 2021.
The opposite Indian shuttlers to have bagged medals within the international occasion are Lakshya Sen, B Sai Praneeth and the Ashwini Ponnappa-Jwala Gutta pair, all profitable bronze medals.
India have to date bagged 13 medals within the BWF World Championships.
(With PTI inputs)
