HS Prannoy looks to continue good form as he spearheads India challenge at Taipei Open badminton tournament
Published Date – Monday, 6/19/23 at 8:00pm
Taipei: The semi-final defeat in Indonesia is a thing of the past and HS Prannoy will look to continue his good form as he takes the lead against India in the Taipei Open badminton tournament that begins on Tuesday.
World No. 9 Prannoy, who is third here, will play in the BWF World Tour Super 300 men’s singles first qualifying round. Pranoi, who won the Malaysia Masters Super 300 title last month, had an impressive performance at the Indonesia Open, a Super 1000 event, which reached the semi-finals, where he lost 15-21 15-21 to In the end, Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen won.
Prannoy will be desperate to make up for that loss. The other Indians in the men’s singles were Meiraba Luwang Maisnam, who faced Hong Kong’s fifth seeds Angus Ng Ka Long, Kiran George, Sathish Kumar Karunakaran, Mithun Manjunath and S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian. Subhankar Dey and Parupalli Kashyap will have to go through the qualifiers.
Kodai Naraoka is the top seed in the men’s singles. The other top men in the competition were Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien-Cheng (2nd) and Kenta Nishimoto (4th). London Olympic bronze medalist Senna Nehwal will find her form in the women’s singles alongside compatriots Malvika Bansold, Akash Kashyap and Rusvika Shivani Gad.
Senna will face Thailand’s Pornpicha Choeikeewong in the first round, while Malvika will face third seed Beiwen Zhang. The star men’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty made history on Sunday by becoming the first pair from India to win a Super 1000 event, but they will not be in Taipei.
In their absence, eighth seeds Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala will lead India in the Men’s Doubles, where they will take on Vinson Chiu and Joshua Yuan of the United States. In Women’s Doubles, Rutuparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda are India’s only representatives, while Rohan Kapoor and N Sikki Redd and Navaneeth Bokka and Priya Konjengbam will feature in Mixed Doubles.
