Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy will probably be spearheading the Indian problem on the Malaysia Masters badminton match, which can begin on Tuesday. In this Badminton World Federation (BWF) Super 500 Tournament, the world quantity 16 is the top-rated Indian shuttler within the girls’s class and can compete towards the world quantity 20 from Japan, Natsuki Nidaira within the first spherical, as per Olympics.com. Sindhu skipped the Taipei Open and Thailand Open earlier this month, and her finest efficiency this 12 months is the quarterfinal end atthe Indian Open in January. Prannoy additionally competed within the Sudirman Cup on the month begin.
Malvika Bansod, the twenty third within the girls’s singles competitors and 17-year-old Unnati Hooda, who made it to the semifinals of the Taipei Open earlier this month, may even be competing.
HS Prannoy, the world quantity thirty fifth within the singles rankings, will probably be competing towards Japan’s fifth seed and world quantity 12, Kenta Nishimoto. World quantity 33, Priyanshu Rajawat, is the top-ranked males’s singles participant within the absence of 18th-ranked Lakshya Sen.
The males’s singles draw additionally consists of Ayush Shetty and Sathish Karunakaran.
Coming to the lads’s doubles, the primary draw options world No. 40 Hariharan Amsakarunan and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi and the qualifiers will embrace Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy and Sai Pratheek Ok.
The world quantity 19 pair of Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto will symbolize India within the combined doubles competitors because the top-ranked pair.
Malaysia Masters 2025 badminton: India squad
Men’s singles: Ayush Shetty, Sathish Karunakaran, HS Prannoy, Priyanshu Rajawat; qualifiers – Kidambi Srikanth, Tharun Mannepalli, Sankar Subramanian
Men’s doubles: Hariharan Amsakarunan-Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi; qualifiers – Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy-Sai Pratheek Ok
Women’s singles: PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Unnati Hooda; qualifiers: Anmol Kharb, Tasnim Mir
Women’s doubles: Vaishnavi Khadkekar-Alisha Khan, Prerana Alvekar-Mrunmayee Deshpande, Kavipriya Selvam-Simran Singhi, Rashmi Ganesh-Sania Sikkandar
Mixed doubles: Dhruv Kapila-Tanisha Crasto, Rohan Kapoor-Ruthvika Gadde, Ashith Surya-Amrutha Pramuthesh, Sathish Karunakaran-Aadya Variyath; qualifiers: Mohit Jaglan-Lakshita Jaglan, Shivam Sharma-Poorvisha S Ram.
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