The prestigious All England Open Badminton Championship is all set to begin on March 14, the place the highest badminton gamers from world wide will collect on the Utilita Arena for probably the most prestigious trophies.
With 155 matches and over 50 hours of badminton motion to take pleasure in, the Championships will serve up to six days from March 16-20 with loads of intriguing ties on supply. A complete of 128 singles opponents and 96 groups are competing within the occasion.
From the Indian perspective, to this point solely two Indians have received the All-England Open because it began in 1899.
Prakash Padukone was the primary Indian to win the lads’s singles title in 1980. Pullela Gopichand turned the second to clinch the coveted trophy in 2001. Saina Nehwal and Lakshya Sen, nevertheless, got here shut however ended up because the runners-up in 2015 and 2022, respectively.
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Indian shuttlers had not the most effective begin of the 12 months as the highest gamers haven’t been up to the mark with two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu regularly making comeback from damage and Satwikaairaj Rankireddy getting injured.
Though India have clinched the bronze on the Asian Mixed staff occasion bronze, it’s onerous to predict what can be India’s probabilities on the prestigious occasion with a tough draw, the place not one of the Indian singles gamers are seeded.
Men’s Singles:
All eyes can be on final 12 months’s finalist Lakshya Sen, who will start his marketing campaign in opposition to fifth seed Taipei shuttler Chou Tien Chen, in opposition to whom he’s but to register a win. If he will get previous the first-round hurdle, Sen will meet the winner of all Dane contests between Anders Antonsen and Rasmus Gemke, with Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting as his potential quarterfinal opponent.
Sen might have a face-off with HS Prannoy, which can be their eighth assembly within the final 12 months, because the latter has been drawn in the identical quarter as Sen. But first, Prannoy has to face Wang Tzu Wei within the opening spherical, with a possible second-round in opposition to Ginting.
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Another Indian, Kidambi Srikanth begins in opposition to Popov and has a possible conflict with Japanese seventh seed Kodai Naraoka within the second spherical. If Shrikanth manages to transfer at Popov and Noaraoka, then he could have a possible quarterfinal face-off with defending champion Lee Zii Jia.
Women’s singles:
Sindhu had a forgetful begin to the 12 months after coming back from a five-month damage layoff. Considered as a Player of main occasion, Sindhu hasn’t reached the All-England last in her profession to this point.
The ace shuttler begins in opposition to Zhang Yi Man. If she wins, she’s going to play fifth seed and acquainted foe He Bing Jiao, whom she defeated in Tokyo Olympics in a bronze medal match.
The Third seed Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei, who stopped Sindhu to attain her second successive Olympic last in Tokyo, is the opposite seed on this quarter, and there can be a possible quarterfinal conflict between the 2 shuttlers.
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The 2015 finalist, Nehwal, will start in opposition to China’s Han Yue, who has a 3-1 report in opposition to the Indian. A win will arrange a conflict in opposition to sixth seed Wang Zhi Yi.
Men’s Doubles:
Big-game gamers Satwik and Chirag Shetty are India’s greatest hope within the occasion. The sixth-seeded Indian are drawn to start in opposition to Marcus Fernaldi
Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo however ‘the Minions’ has pulled out of the event as Sukamuljo has but to get well from a bout of dengue.
After their withdrawal, one in all French duo Lucas Corvee-Ronan Labar and Indian pair Krishna Prasad Garaga-Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala will possible step up from the reserves to face Satwik and Chirag.
If the duo reaches the second spherical, they may possible play India Open champions Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, with reigning world champions Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia ready within the quarterfinal.
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The different Indians within the draw are MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila, who will face China’s Ren Xiang Yu and Tan Qiang, a pair they’ve by no means performed earlier than. A win might see them take on fifth seeds Liu Yu Chen and Ou Xuan Yi.
Women’s Doubles:
Teenage pair Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand acquired main breakthrough of their profession final 12 months in All England as they entered the semifinal after being promoted from the reserves.
This 12 months, the world No 19 pair have a tough draw as they may start in opposition to seventh seeds Thai pair Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai.
The pair might stage an upset as they’ve constructed up a very good momentum within the final one month. They had been unbeaten on the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championship with wins over Malaysians Pearly Tan-Thinaah Muralitharan and in addition received the nationwide championship.
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Ashwini Bhat and Shikha Gautam are the opposite Indian pair within the draw, who begin in opposition to Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee, who they’re enjoying for the primary time. If they win, they are going to be up in opposition to second seeds Japanese pair Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida.
Mixed Doubles:
Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto are the one Indian representatives within the class. They will begin in opposition to the eighth-seeded pair from Germany,
Mark Lamsfuss and Isabel Lohau.
Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist pair Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino are the opposite seeds within the quarter.
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