Indonesia Open tournament: Indian shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy to start campaign today in Jakarta

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 15, Jun 2022

Indian shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy will start their campaign today at Indonesia Open Badminton tournament in Jakarta.

In men’s singles opening round matches, world championships bronze medallist Sen will face compatriot Prannoy while world championships silver medallist Srikanth, ranked world No. 11, will take on Brice Leverdez of France.
World No. 30 Sameer Verma defeated 43rd-ranked Thomas Rouxel of France 21-19, 21-15 in the first round and will be up against reigning Asian champion and world No. 5 Lee Zii Jia in his round of 16 match.

India’s top women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy defeated the pair of fellow Indian Srivedya Gurazada and American shuttler Ishika Jaiswal 21-15, 21-8 to progress into the next round.

They will face Tokyo 2020 silver medallists Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan of China, next.

Source: News on Air