Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, reigning world championships runner-up Kidambi Srikanth and bronze winner Lakshya Sen would be the prime draw on the 2022 India Open, scheduled from January 11-16 within the nationwide capital.
The USD 400,000 prize cash match, which will probably be held with out spectators owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, is a part of the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500.
Also headlining the match will probably be newly-crowned world champion Loh Kean Yew alongside.
Singapore’s Yew, who created historical past in Huelva, Spain lately by changing into the first-ever unseeded participant within the open period to win the world championships, will lead the worldwide line-up on the 2022 BWF season opener.
Former world No. 1 Srikanth has been named the highest seed within the males’s singles class adopted by the 2019 world championships bronze medallist B Sai Praneeth.
Sen, the youngest Indian male shuttler to clinch a world championships medal, HS Pronnoy, Parupalli Kashyap and Sameer Verma are among the many different Indian contributors alongside skilled Tommy Sugiarto from Indonesia.
World No. 7 Sindhu has been given the highest seed in girls’s singles class which incorporates London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal, who lifted the title in 2015, alongside different younger Indian shuttlers together with Malvika Bansod, Aakarshi Kashyap and Ashmita Chaliha.
While among the many prime worldwide taking part names are world No. 12 Busanan Ongbamrungphan of Thailand and Singapore’s Jia Min Yeo.
The star Indian pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy would be the key attraction within the males’s doubles class. However, they’re set to face a stiff competitors because the line-up contains the three-time world champion and world No. 2 Indonesian duo of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan alongside one other Indonesian pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto, who’re presently ranked eighth on this planet.
In the ladies’s doubles, the world No. 9 pair of Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai from Thailand will probably be among the many prime names as Ashwini Ponappa and N Sikki Reddy will lead the Indian problem alongside Gayatri P and Treesa Jolly.
The blended doubles competitors can even witness participation of three Top-20 pairs.
The eleventh version of the match, which is all set to make a return after a two-year break as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, will probably be performed on the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall inside Indira Gandhi Stadium below strict COVID protocols.
