Badminton: pv sindhu and Lakshya Sen will return after the disappointment of the Paris Olympics, and will participate in the Arctic Open
Sindhu meanwhile broke ties with her previous coach Indonesia's Agus Dwi Santoso and appointed India's Anoop sridhar and Korean veteran Lee Soon Il as her new coaches. On the other hand, Sen focused on his fitness. During this time, he spent most of his time at the red Bull Arena in Austria.
India's star players pv sindhu and Lakshya Sen, who failed to win medals in the paris Olympics, will make an international comeback from the Arctic Open Super 500 badminton tournament starting on Tuesday. This will be sindhu and Sen's first tournament after the Olympics. Both of them meanwhile focused on evaluating their game and making the necessary improvements to it.
Sindhu meanwhile broke ties with her previous coach Indonesia's Agus Dwi Santoso and appointed India's Anoop sridhar and Korean veteran Lee Soon Il as her new coaches. On the other hand, Sen focused on his fitness. During this time, he spent most of his time at the red Bull Arena in Austria.
In the Arctic Open, Sindhu's first match will be against Michelle Lee of Canada, while Sen, who lost in the bronze medal match at the Olympics, will face Rasmus Gemke of Denmark. If two-time Olympic medalist sindhu overcomes the first hurdle, then in the next round she may face 2022 junior world champion 18-year-old Japanese player Tomoko Miyazaki, to whom she lost at the swiss Open earlier this year.
For Sen, this will also be an opportunity to take revenge on Gemke. He lost to her at the india Open in 2023. If he manages to win this match, then his next match can be against seventh seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei. Kidambi srikanth, who returned to the Macau Open after being out for four months due to injury, will also present his challenge in the Arctic Open. He will continue his campaign from the qualifiers along with compatriots kiran George and Satish Kumar Karunakaran. In the qualifiers, former world number one srikanth will face George, while Satish will take on Arnaud Merkle of France. Apart from Sindhu, in-form Malvika Bansod and Aakarshi Kashyap will also challenge in the women's singles. Malvika, who reached the quarterfinals of the China Open Super 1000, will face Sung Shuo Yun of Chinese Taipei in the first round, while Aakarshi will face Germany's Yvonne Lee. Another indian player Unnati Hooda will face Israel's Heli Neeman in the qualifiers. No indian is participating in the men's doubles, but Rituparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda will challenge in the women's doubles while Satish and Aadya Variyath will challenge in the mixed doubles.
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