Satwiksiraj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty to lead Indian Challenge at Hong Kong Super 500 | Badminton News – The Times of India

Fresh from their bronze medal triumph at the world championships, Satwiksairraj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will lead the inderation of India at the Hong Kong Super 500 Badminton Tournament from Tuesday. At number 3 in the world, the couple delivered a great show in Paris to secure their second bronze in the world and this season the most reliable artists of India have been, with several semifinal performances on the BWF tour in India, Malaysia, China and Singapore.Satwik and Chirag are being paved and start their campaign against Chinese Taipei’s Chiu Hshanang Chieh and Wang Chi-Lin.In the meantime, two-time Olympic medal winner PV Sindhu-Die will be impressed among the worlds with a dominant victory over Wang Zhi Yi in China before he bends in the quarterfinals to wear that momentum ahead when she opens the line of Christophers van Denmark.The American open champion Ayush Shetty, one of the rising stars this year, has a tough first round of Lu Guang Zu in China.Former world no. 6 Lakshya Sen, who is still looking for rhythm after his fourth place at the Olympic Games in Paris, will look to regain confidence when he takes on Wang Tzu Wei of the Chinese Taipei.The 24-year-old is plagued by narrow losses and problems and suffered an exit in the first round in the worlds against top seed shi yu qi.HS Prannoy, who started fighting the Anders Antonsen van Denmark in Paris, stands for a new stiff challenge against the fifth seed of Japan Kodai Naraoka in the first round.In Singles for ladies, Anupama Upadhyaya meets the fourth seed Tomoka Miyazaki from Japan, while Rakshithha Ramraj’s former world champion and fifth seed of Ratchanok Intanonon meet.Under Dubbers, the Hariharan Amsakarunan men’s couple and Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi and the duo of Rutaparna and Swetaparna Panda will be in action.In mixed Doubles, Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto, quarterfinalists in the worlds, are confronted with the Chinese Taipei’s Chen Chen Chen Kuan and HSU Yin-Hui, while Rohan Kapoor and Gadde Ruthvika Shivani Tweed Feng Yan and Huang Dong or Huang.The qualifications have a complete Indian collision between former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth and Tharun Mannepalli. Srikanth remains the only Indian who has reached a super 500 final this year and ended second place at the Malaysia Masters.Kiran George takes it in Malaysia in June Wei in Malaysia, while Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian faces canada’s cheek yue hang.