Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (AP)
It will even be a chance for the highest Indian shuttlers to look to get a really feel of the situations at the Adidas enviornment at Porte de la Chapelle which is about to be the venue for the Paris Olympics.
Former champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty can be hoping to be fourth time fortunate after three successive runner-up finishes once they start their marketing campaign at the USD 850,000 French Open Super 750 badminton match beginning right here on Tuesday.
The world No. 1 Indian pair faltered at the ending line thrice to log out as second finest at 2023 China Masters Super 750 in November, Malaysia Open Super 1000 and India Open Super 750 occasions in January and can begin as title favourites this week.
It will even be a chance for the highest Indian shuttlers to look to get a really feel of the situations at the Adidas enviornment at Porte de la Chapelle which is about to be the venue for the Paris Olympics.
The high seeded Indians, who received the French Open in 2022, have been the epitome of consistency in males’s doubles, which is taken into account to be extremely aggressive and are more likely to make the weekends as soon as once more after opening their marketing campaign towards Malaysian mixture of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi.
“I feel losing sometimes it is better than winning all the time. When it really matters it will come. We just need to hang in there,” Satwik had stated after the India Open.
“We played three finals, we lost three, it was very close in those matches. We could’ve kept calm in crucial situations.” The occasion holds further significance for 2-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, who made a return to the circuit after 4 months at the Asia Team Championships in Malaysia.
While not all of the tremendous stars competed in Shah Alam final month, the French Open will see them again in motion and it will likely be a giant check for Sindhu, who misplaced one and received twice at the continental match.
The world No. 11 Indian will open her marketing campaign towards Canada’s Michelle Li and a win is more likely to put her throughout three-time former world champion and nemesis Carolina Marin of Spain, their first assembly since that in poor health-tempered match between the 2 within the Denmark Open semi-last.
In males’s singles, world No. 7 HS Prannoy made an honest begin to the brand new season, reaching the semifinal of the India Open and although he misplaced twice in February at BATC, the 30-12 months-outdated will look to step up his recreation when he begins towards China’s Lu Guang Zu.
In the Paris Olympic race, Lakshya Sen, who has slipped to world No 19, will even have his job lower out when he takes on Japan’s Kanta Tsuneyama within the opening match.
Former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth too will face a tricky buyer in Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen in his opener, whereas for a younger Priyanshu Rajawat it will likely be a chance to create the most important upset when he faces world No.1 Viktor Axelsen.
Srikanth is presently ranked twenty fourth on the earth.
In an important flip of destiny, two Indian girls pairs — Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand, and Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa — who’re combating for a berth within the Olympics, will face off within the opening spherical.
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