As per the sources B Sai Praneeth will lead the Indian challenge at the Australian Open HSBC BWF World Tour Super 300. The tournament will start in Sydney from Wednesday.

Worth mention here Established stars such as PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth and Ashwini Ponnappa will not participated in  the tournament. In their absence, Sai Praneeth and the men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy will lead India's campaign in Australian soil.

Apart from this several big names have pulled out of the low-key tournament. Manu-Sumeeth have been started third and will open campaign against Australian pair of Lukas Defolky and Michael Fariman.

The other Indian men's doubles pair of Arjun M.R. and Ramchandran Shlok will clash Australians Tam Raymond and Eric Vuong. Another Indian men's doubles pair of Rohan Kapoor and Shivam Sharma will have match against Malaysians Tang Jie Chen and Goh Soon Huat while eighth seeds Francis Alwin and K. Nandagopal will meet Tae In Jung and Hwi Tae Kim. In the men's singles, world No.18 Praneeth has been handed a top seeding and he will face Israel's Misha Zilberman in the opening round.

Fourth seed Sameer Verma will meet New Zealand's Abhinav Manota while Sourabh Verma will face Takuma Ueda of Japan. Ajay Jayaram will take on Japanese Riichi Takeshita while Lakshya Sen will take on Hong Kong seventh seed Lee Cheuk Yiu. In the women's singles, Sai Uttejitha Rao Chukka will meet Japanese Ayumi Mine and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli will take on Indonesia's Yulia Yosephin Susanto. Vaishnavi Reddy Jakka will clash Georgina Bland of England. In the women's doubles, J. Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram will take on Maggie Chan and Jodee Vega of Australia.