Lakshya Sen opts for leisure after All England heroics, skips Swiss Open

All England Open 2022 finalist Lakshya Sen has made up our minds to go for leisure over that includes on the Swiss Open Tremendous 300, starting on Tuesday, March 21. After an hard 2 weeks through which Lakshya reached the overall of the German Open and the celebrated All England Open, the 20-year-old

Alternatively, the likes of double-Olympic medalist PV Sindhu, international championships silver medalist Kidambi Srikanth and London Olympic bronze medalist Saina Nehwal might be in motion on the Swiss Open.

Whilst Sen has been sensational within the final two weeks, best avid gamers Sindhu, Srikanth and Saina Nehwal failed to succeed in the quarterfinals at Birmingham and would eye a greater display this week.

Whilst Sindhu and Saina misplaced in the second one spherical in each German Open and All England Championships, Srikanth had reached the final 8 in Germany.

Sindhu, seeded 2nd, the 2019 Global champion, will tackle Denmark’s international no 32 Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt in her opening spherical, whilst Saina opens in opposition to China’s 7th seed Wang Zhi Yi.

Srikanth, who has appeared in excellent contact since his Global Championships bronze, will face a qualifier in his males’s singles opener.

Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth will meet compatriot HS Prannoy in his opening fit, whilst former Commonwealth Video games champion Parupalli Kashyap will sq. off in opposition to a qualifier.

In girls’s singles, Aakarshi Kashyap has been pitted in opposition to Germany’s Yvonne Li within the opening spherical.

3rd-seeded males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who had received the India Open in January, will open in opposition to Indonesian mixture of Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Bagas Maulana.

MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila, and Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala can also be in motion in males’s doubles.

ALL EYES ON GAYATRI-JOLLY

Following their sensational run on the All England Championships the place they made it to the semifinals, all eyes can also be on Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand after they start in opposition to 2nd seed Thailand’s Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai.

6th seeded Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will meet Switzerland’s Aline Müller and Jenjira Stadelmann.

In combined doubles, Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto, and Venkat Gaurav Prasad and Juhi Dewangan might be in motion. (With PTI Inputs)