A historic Asiad silver added to her path-breaking career collection, ace Indian shuttler P V Sindhu would be desperate to break the final jinx that has plagued her for a while when she competes at the Japan Open starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Sindhu has been outstanding this season with silver medals in all the major events this year — the Commonwealth Games, the World Championship and the Asian Games.<\/p>\n
They are all medals to be cherished but a hectic schedule leaves her with very little time to stay in the moment.<\/p>\n
Add to it, the questions that have been staring at the Olympic silver-medallist for not being able to go the full distance in marquee summit clashes.<\/p>\n
Heading into the Asian circuit events, which include China and Korea, Sindhu would look to put these questions to rest.<\/p>\n
The third-seeded 23-year-old begins her campaign against Japan\u2019s Sayaka Takahashi.<\/p>\n
She is expected to reach the quarterfinal where she is likely to face the three-time either world champion Carolina Marin or the formidable Akane Yamaguchi of Japan.<\/p>\n
Saina Nehwal, who won a bronze medal at the Asiad, has pulled out of the USD 700,000 BWF World Tour Super 750.<\/p>\n
Among the men, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy will look to get over the disappointing campaigns in the World championship and the Asian Games and go deep into the draw.<\/p>\n
Srikanth, a former world No.1 whose best finish this season has been a semifinal appearance at the Malaysia Open, will face China\u2019s Huang Yuxiang. Prannoy will take on Jonathan Christie, the Indonesian who earned his country a maiden Asian Games gold i August.<\/p>\n
Sameer Verma, who clinched the Hyderabad Open Super 100 tournament on Sunday, will look to continue his good run when he faces Korea\u2019s Lee Dong Keun.<\/p>\n
However, B Sai Praneeth, who won the Singapore Open last year, withdrew from the tournament. The reasons for his pullout are not known.<\/p>\n
In men\u2019s doubles, Commonwealth Games silver-medallists Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who also won at Hyderabad, will square off against third seeded Japanese Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda.<\/p>\n
Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy will meet Malaysia\u2019s Goh V Shem and Tan Wee Kiong.<\/p>\n
CWG bronze-medallists Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will fight it out with Korean combination of Chang Ye Na and Jung Kyung Eun in women\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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