\nPARIS, 25 Oct: India\u2019s double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu will look to iron out her flaws when she competes at the French Open Super 750 badminton tournament, starting here on Tuesday.
\nPlaying her first event in two months, Sindhu looked a bit sluggish at last week\u2019s Denmark Open, where she lost in the quarterfinals to fast-rising Korean An Seyoung.
\nShe had struggled past Thailand\u2019s Busanan Ongbamrungphan to reach the last-eight stage.
\nSindhu, the reigning world champion, didn\u2019t have any plan B against An, who didn\u2019t allow the Indian to play her attacking game.
\nThe 26-year-old from Hyderabad, who will open against Denmark\u2019s Julie Dawall Jakobsen this week, will need to get her aggressive self back and also strengthen her defense if she hopes to reach the podium.
\nShe is likely to come across opponents like Denmark\u2019s Line Christop-hersen and Thailand\u2019s Busanan Ongbamrungphan or Scotland\u2019s Kristy Gilmour in the next rounds.
\nLondon Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal, who was troubled by a groin injury at the Uber Cup Final but played at Denmark Open only to lose in the opening round, will hope to make a winning start when she opens against Japan\u2019s Sayaka Takahashi here.
\nIn men\u2019s singles, all eyes will be on Sameer Verma after his stunning run last week.
\nThe 25-year-old from Madhya Pradesh stunned world number three Anders Antonsen in Odense before retiring from the quarterfinals against Indonesia\u2019s Tommy Sugiarto due to a calf injury and he will need to be at the top of his game when he faces sixth seeded Indonesian Jonatan Christie.
\nKidambi Srikanth will get another chance to avenge his last week\u2019s loss when he faces world number one kento Momota of Japan in the opening round.
\nWhile Srikanth did put up a fight in the opening game, he ran out of steam in the second against Momota, who put up a solid display in the tournament to eventually reach the finals at Denmark.
\nIn another match, in-form Lakhsya Sen will take on Tokyo-returned B Sai Praneeth in an all-Indian contest.
\nFormer top 10 player, H S Prannoy had a decent outing at Denmark and will have his task cut out against fourth seeded Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei, while Sourabh Verma too faces an uphill task against fifth seeded Anthony Sinisuka Gingting.
\nParupalli Kashyap, who had retired in the opening round last week due to a hamstring injury, will meet France\u2019s Brice Leverdez in the first round here.
\nIn men\u2019s doubles, world number 10 duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seeded fifth, will square off against Chinese Taipei\u2019s Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan, while talented pair of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila face Ireland duo of Joshua Magee and Paul Reynolds. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PARIS, 25 Oct: India\u2019s double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu will look to iron out her flaws when she competes at the French Open Super 750 badminton tournament, starting here on Tuesday. Playing her first event in two months, Sindhu looked a bit sluggish at last week\u2019s Denmark Open, where she lost in the quarterfinals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}