Badminton Asia Championships: The 40th edition of the Badminton Asia Championship will be contested for the first time in the Middle East and is scheduled to be played at the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall in Dubai from April 25 to 30. The Indian Team will be headed by HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen men’s singles category and Olympic medalists PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal in the women’s singles category. Follow Badminton Asia Championships 2023 LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN
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Men’s and Women’s Singles at the Badminton Asian Championships 2023
PV Sindhu is seeded eighth in the singles categoryand had reached the women’s singles final of the Madrid Spain Masters 2023 earlier this month. HS Prannoy is also seeded eighth in men’s singles. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are seeded sixth in the men’s doubles.
According to the draw, world number 11 PV Sindhu will meet Chinese Taipei’s Wen Chi Hsu in the first round. Saina Nehwal who is ranked 29 at the moment on the hand will face a qualifier as her first round opponent. Malvika Bansod and Aakarshi Kashyap will also compete in the women’s singles category.
In the first round of the men’s singles, world No. 9 HS Prannoy will face Myanmar’s Phone Pyae Naing. Lakshya Sen, world No. 24, will face Singapore’s seventh seeded Loh Kean Yew. Kidambi Srikanth, world No. 23, will face Adnan Ebrahim of Bahrain in the first round.
India’s Doubles Contingent for the Badminton Asian Championships 2023
In the men’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who claimed the Swiss Open 2023 crown, will open their campaign against Malaysia’s Tan Kian Meng and Tan Wee Kiong.
In the women’s doubles, Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly will play Lanny Mayasari and Ribika Sugiarto of Indonesia in their first round match.
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