Isharani Baruah and Kiran George will spearhead India in the women’s and men’s singles, respectively, at the Macau Open Super 300 badminton tournament beginning on Tuesday.
Isharani, seeded fifth, will face a qualifier in her opening round, while seventh seed Shriyanshi Valishetty will take on compatriot Tasnim Mir.
Aakarshi Kashyap has been drawn against Kim Min Ji of Korea, while Shreya Lele has a tough opening round against fourth seed Han Qianxi of China.
Mansi Singh will face Lee So Yul of Korea, eighth seed Anmol Kharb will play Mutiara Ayu Puspitasari of Indonesia, Rakshitha Sree Santhosh Ramraj will take on Malaysia’s Kisona Selvaduray and Ashmita Chaliha will square off against Tung Ciou-Tong of Chinese Taipei.
In the men’s singles, George
will be up against Richie Duta Richardo of Indonesia, while S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian will face Huang Ping-Hsien of Chinese Taipei and Rithvik Sanjeevi Satish Kumar will play compatriot Tharun Mannepalli in their respective first-round matches.
Only one Indian pair features in the main draw of the men’s doubles, in the form of Bhargav Ram Arigela and Viswa Tej Gobburu, who will take on the Malaysian duo of Xin Yuan Boon and Sheng Hao Lwi in the first round, while two Indian pairs will compete in the women’s doubles.
The pair of Ashwini Bhatt K and Shikha Gautam will be up against the Indonesian combination of Amallia Cahaya Pratiwi and Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti in the opening round, while the duo of VR Nardhana and Riduvarshini Ramaswamy will face Chinese Taipei’s Yi En Hsieh and Teng Chun Hsun.
As many as five Indian pairs are in contention in the mixed doubles.
Ishaan Bhatnagar and Shruti Mishra will face the German duo of Calvin Devereux and Desiree Toepffer, while the combination of Mohit Jaglan and Lakshita Jaglan will take on Malaysia’s Low Han Chen and Chan Wen Tse in the opening round.
The eighth-seeded pair of Dhruv Rawat and Maneesha K will face a qualifier in the opening round, while Rohith Mohankumar and Riduvarshini Ramaswamy will take on fourth seeds Zhu Yi Jun and Li Qian of China.
The last Indian mixed doubles pair, Sathwik Reddy Kanapuram and Radhika Sharma, will open their campaign against Thailand’s Supak Jomkoh and Ornnicha Jongsathapornparn.
(With PTI Inputs)
