World champion PV Sindhu and Commonwealth Games gold medalist Saina Nehwal would like to begin the new year with a victory in the Malaysia Masters Super 500 tournament starting on Tuesday. World number six Sindhu has not won any Super Series title for the last two years. She did not win any trophy except for the World Championship in Basel, Switzerland last year. Saina also won just one trophy in 2019. There is less than seven months left in the Olympics and Sindhu would like to start strong by improving her flaws.
According to media reports, it has been learned that Rio Olympics silver medalist Sindhu will start her campaign against Russia's Yevgeniya Kosetskaya. He may have to play world number one Chinese Taipei's Tai Xu Ying in the quarter-finals. Saina, who won the Indonesia Masters title last year, will play in the first round with qualifiers.
Srikanth's competition from Tien to Praneeth's Gemke: For information, let us tell you that in men's singles, Kidambi Srikanth will have to overcome Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien Chen in the first round, while B Sai Praneeth will face the challenge of Denmark's Rasmus Gemke. Sameer Verma will take on Thailand's Kentaphone Wangcheron, P Kashyap against world number one Kento Memota and HS Prannoy's Japan's Kenta Sunayama. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty in the first round with local pair of Ong Yu Sin and Tiyo Yi while in the women's doubles Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Sikki Reddy will play Chang Yi Na and Kim Yi Rin.
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