PV Sindhu will look to make sure that her constant run yields a title, whereas all eyes may also be on the fast-rising Lakshya Sen and the lads’s doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty as they make their debut on the BWF World Tour Finals starting right here on Wednesday.
It would be the greatest ever illustration for India on the year-end match with as many as seven of them qualifying for the $1,50,000 occasion.
Save for combined doubles, the Indians compete in all different classes with Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy, who made the minimize after the completion of the Indonesia Open final week, set to symbolize the nation within the ladies’s doubles occasion.
The solely Indian to win the distinguished title in 2018, reigning world champion Sindhu was a finalist on the occasion the 12 months earlier than and she is going to search for one other good outing when she opens her marketing campaign in opposition to prime seed Pornpawee Chochuwong of Thailand in group A.
Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medallist, has been in line with three semifinal finishes within the final three occasions and is prone to make it to the knockout stage.
The 26-year-old from Hyderabad is predicted to complete among the many prime two within the group as she has a great document in opposition to the opposite two opponents — Denmark’s Line Christophersen and Germany’s Yvonne Li.
Srikanth, solely the fourth participant ever to win 4 Super Series titles in a 12 months, has seemed in good contact in the previous few occasions with semifinal finishes at Indonesia Masters and Hylo Open.
The former world No.1 had reached the knockout stage of the year-ending occasion in 2014 and he’ll look to relive these moments when he begins his marketing campaign in opposition to Malaysia’s second seed Lee Zii Jia in group B which additionally contains France’s Toma Junior Popov and Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand.
Debutants Lakshya and Satwik-Chirag have been clubbed within the ‘group of death’ and will probably be extraordinarily powerful for them to qualify for the subsequent stage.
Lakshya, who had received 5 titles in 2019, has been clubbed in Group A with prime seed and Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen, two-time world champion Kento Momota of Japan and Denmark’s Rasmus Gemke.
The 20-year-old from Almora, who had reached the finals of Dutch Open and achieved semifinal outcomes on the Denmark Masters and Hylo Open, will open in opposition to Rasmus.
World No.11 Satwik and Chirag will face prime seeded Indonesians Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, world No.3 Chinese Taipei’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin and world No.10 Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in group A.
In ladies’s doubles, Ashwini and Sikki should compete with Japan’s second seeds Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida, Bulgaria’s Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva, and Chloe Birch and lauren Smith of England for a spot within the knockout stage.
