India’s high shuttlers together with PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy and males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have withdrawn from the upcoming BWF Japan Open, scheduled to start on August 24. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Tuesday confirmed that defending champion Axelsen, recent from profitable his second Olympic Games gold medal, will likely be among the many star sights within the match amid huge pull outs from the match that will likely be first main badminton occasion after the conclusion of Paris Olympics on Sunday.
Axelsen is considered one of three defending champions who’ve entered the match – the others are ladies’s doubles duo Kim So Yeong/Kong Hee Yong and combined doubles pair Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino.
The different two defending champions: An Se Young and Lee Yang/Wang Chi-Lin – who additionally gained the Olympic gold just lately – will skip the Japan Open.
Lakshya got here agonisingly near profitable the bronze medal for India within the Paris Olympics however he got here down preventing in opposition to Axelsen to overlook out the rostrum end within the debut quadrennial occasion.
Apart from the Indian shuttlers, the opposite outstanding withdrawls embody Olympic champions Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong, Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik, Chen Yu Fei, and Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti.
While there have been numerous high-profile withdrawals, the sector in all classes has loads of depth. Shi Yu Qi, Jonatan Christie, Anders Antonsen, Kodai Naraoka and Kunlavut Vitidsarn in males’s singles, and Tai Tzu Ying, Akane Yamaguchi, Wang Zhi Yi and Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in ladies’s singles are anticipated to be seen in motion.
In males’s doubles, world champions Seo Seung Jae/Kang Min Hyuk will likely be searching for their first Japan Open title, whereas in ladies’s doubles, native hopefuls Chiharu Shida/Nami Matsuyama and Mayu Matsumoto/Wakana Nagahara will try to interrupt the run of Korean success from 2019.
Olympic bronze medallists Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino will look to defend their title, with the sector prone to see world champions Seo Seung Jae/Chae Yu Jung, Olympic silver medallists Kim Won Ho/Jeong Na Eun and Indonesia Open winners Jiang Zheng Bang/Wei Ya Xin.
Withdrawals from Japan Open 2024-
Men’s Singles: HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen, Priyanshu Rajawat, Wang Po-Wei, Sameer Verma, Sankar Muthusamy, Oleksii Titov, Riku Hatano, Garret Tan.
Women’s Singles: An Se Young, Pusarla V Sindhu, Chen Yu Fei, He Bing Jiao, Carolina Marin, Eliana Zhang, Asuka Takahashi.
Men’s Doubles: Chirag Shetty/Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik, Arif Junaidi/Roy King Yap, Sai Pratheek/Krishna Prasad Garaga, Julien Maio/William Villeger, Ayush Pattanayak/Abinash Mohanty, Yuichi Shimogami/Takumi Nomura, Mahiro Kaneko/Shunya Ota, William Kryger Boe/Christian Faust Kjaer, Lin Yu Chieh/Chen Zhi Ray, Youcef Sabri Medel/Koceila Mammeri.
Women’s Doubles: Apriyani Rahayu/Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti; Rawinda Prajongjai/Jongkolphan Kititharakul; Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand Pullela; Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota; Setyana Mapasa/Angela Yu; Moa Sjoo/Tilda Sjoo; Wen Yu Zhang/Eliana Zhang; Sikki Reddy/Gadde Ruthvika Shivani.
Mixed Doubles: Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong; Feng Yan Zhe/Huang Dong Ping; Praveen Jordan/Serena Kani; Mathias Christiansen/Alexandra Boje; Julien Maio/Lea Palermo; Oleksii Titov/Yevheniia Kantemeyr; Yuichi Shimogami/Sayaka Hobara; Kevin Lee/Eliana Zhang; Rinov Rivaldy/Pitha Haningtyas Mentari; Roy King Yap/Valeree Siow; Chen Zhi Ray/Yang Ching Tun; Koceila Mammeri/Tanina Violette Mammeri.
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