Fatigue a hurdle for Sindhu
Changzhou, Sept. 17: Top Indian shuttler P. V. Sindhu will have to find a way to battle fatigue if she has to continue her consistent run in international circuit and regain the China Open, beginning here on Tuesday.
Sindhu showed signs of fatigue during her secondround exit at last week’s Japan Open, her first early loss since the first- round ouster from the Denmark Open last October.
The 23- year- old Indian has been the most consistent this season with silver medals in all the major events this year — the Commonwealth Games, the World Championship and the Asian Games and reached the finals at the India Open and Thailand Open.
However, a hectic schedule left her with very little time to recover or savour the moment.
The third seeded Indian will start her campaign against Hong Kong’s Cheung Ngan Yi at the Olympic Sports Centre Xincheng Gymnasium.
Saina Nehwal, who had clinched bronze at Asian Games at Jakarta, will be rejuvenated after skipping the Japan Open. The Indian faces a tough first
● round against
Sung Ji Hyun.
Saina and Sindhu are on a collision course and might clash in the quarterfinals if they can clear the earlier rounds.
Among others, Kidambi Srikanth has looked a shadow of the man who clinched four titles last season. Though the seventh seeded Indian won the men’s singles silver at the Commonwealth Korea’s Games, he has been inconsistent in the season so far.
Srikanth begins his campaign against Denmark’s Rasmus Gemke.
World champion Kento Momota, who had ended his campaign at Malaysia and Indonesia, will once again stand in his way in the quarterfinal. H. S. Prannoy starts against Hong Kong’s Ng Ka Long Angus, seeded eighth.
Women’s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will face Korean pair of Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong.
In men’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will square off against Malaysia’s Goh V. Shem and Tan Wee Kiong, while Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy will fight it out against Taiwanese combination of Liao Min Chun and Su Ching Heng.
Third seeded P. V. Sindhu will start her campaign against Hong Kong’s Cheung Ngan Yi while Saina Nehwal faces South Korea’s Sung Ji Hyun