Indian shuttlers HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen have pulled out of the Syed Modi International, taking some sheen out of the Super 300 badminton event beginning on Tuesday. Asian Games bronze medallist Prannoy had recovered from a again harm to succeed in the semifinals at China Masters Super 750, whereas Canada Open winner Sen, world No. 17, hasn’t seemed his self with six first-round exit since August. It has been a busy schedule for the gamers and with the Olympic qualification on the road, gamers wish to be contemporary for the following season. The BWF ‘Race to Paris Ranking Lists’ of 30 April will probably be thought-about for qualification. Olympic medallist P V Sindhu can also be lacking in motion as she recovers from an harm. World No. 24 Kidambi Srikanth is now the top-ranked Indian in males’s singles draw, which additionally has Tokyo Olympian B Sai Praneeth, Indonesian Masters Super 100 winner Kiran George and Priyanshu Rajawat, who received the Orleans Masters Super 300 title this yr.

Six seed Srikanth will open in opposition to Chinese Taipei’s Chia Hao Lee, whereas Priyanshu will face Dmitriy Panarin of Kazakhstan. Kiran will tackle a qualifier and Praneeth, who has been battling kind, will face Japan’s second seed Kenta Nishimoto.

Former world No. 11 Sameer Verma, who’s attempting to make a comeback after battling accidents, will tackle Chinese Taipei’s Wang Tzu Wei.

Mithun Manjunath will meet France’s Alex Lanier, whereas former world junior championships silver medallist S. Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian will struggle it out in opposition to Arnaud Merkle of France.

In ladies’s singles, Malvika Bansod, Aakarshi Kashyap, Unnati Hooda, Anupama Upadhaya, Ashmita Chaliha, Tanya Hemanth, Tasnim Mir and Ruthvika Shivani Gadde are within the fray.