Sindhu will take on USA's Beiwen Zhang, Saina will be up against Cheung Ngan Yi of Hong Kong.
Olympic
medallists PV
Sindhu and Saina Nehwal will lead a strong Indian challenge at
the Denmark
Open badminton tournament which gets underway here on Tuesday.
While
Sindhu has been seeded third in the event, world no.11 Saina is
unseeded here.
Sindhu
will take on USA's Beiwen Zhang in the opening round of the women's
singles. Saina
Nehwal, on the other hand, will be up against Cheung Ngan Yi of
Hong Kong.
In
men's singles competition, world no.6 Kidambi Srikanth will be
India's best bet and has been seeded seventh in the tournament.
Srikanth
will face Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus of Denmark in the opening
round, while B Sai Praneeth will play Huang Yuxiang of China.
However,
it will be a difficult opening encounter for another Indian, Sameer
Verma, as he will square off against third seed Shi Yuqi of China.
The
other Indian in fray, HS Prannoy also faces a tough first round match
as he will be up against sixth seed Son Wan Ho of Korea.
Commonwealth
Games champion Parupalli Kashyap, who lost his passport at Amsterdam
and sought the Indian government's help on Friday, however doesn't
feature in the men's singles draw.
In
men's doubles, the Indian pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy will
take on local hope Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in the
opening round.
Ashwini
Ponappa and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will face the Korean combination
of Seo Seung Jae and Chae Yujung in the first round of the mixed
doubles competition.
Ponappa
will pair up with N Sikki Reddy and play the American duo of Ariel
Lee and Sydney Lee in the opening round of the women's doubles event.
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