Star Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen will look to seek out their mojo and achieve invaluable rating factors within the ongoing Olympic qualification cycle after they start their marketing campaign on the Canada Open World Tour Super 500 event in Calgary on Tuesday. Former world champion and two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu has hit a tough patch after coming back from an damage. The former world No. 2 slipped to 12 within the BWF girls’s singles rankings and she or he must make up for the misplaced time within the Paris Olympics qualification cycle (May 1-April 28, 2024).

The 27-year-old, who sustained a stress fracture en path to successful her maiden Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham final 12 months, remains to be preventing to regain full health.

She was a part of India’s bronze medal win on the Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships at Doha in February however has missed a couple of World Tour occasions this 12 months.

Her finest this 12 months has been a sliver on the Madrid Masters Super 300 occasion in April and since then she has made first spherical exits in two tournaments, whereas in one other, she misplaced within the second spherical.

Sindhu finds herself in a comparatively straightforward draw right here, dealing with native challenger Talia NG within the opening spherical.

Eighth seeded Japan’s Nozomi Okahara, in opposition to whom Sindhu has a 9-8 win-loss report, is prone to be the Indian’s quarterfinal challenger, ought to they overcome their respective first and second spherical hurdles.

Sindhu is within the half of top-seeded Akane Yamaguchi.

The Japanese defeated Sindhu within the Singapore Open final month, however the Indian nonetheless holds a 14-10 win-loss benefit over Yamaguchi.

Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen too has slipped out of top-10 with a slew of first spherical exits this 12 months.

The 19-ranked Sen has suffered first-round exits in 4 occasions together with his finest efficiency being the Indonesia Masters in January the place he reached the quarter-finals.

Sen is battling to regain kind after he underwent a nostril surgical procedure for a deviated septum after the World Championships final August. The surgical procedure was adopted by frequent sickness and allergy symptoms for over eight months, he mentioned.

“Recovery was not really good. Whenever I was into training, I was getting injured or sick. Then I had to take a step back for a bit, because for the first two months, I didn’t’ have any idea that it could be this serious. I made a lot of changes in my foot, and also in the training load,” he advised BWF.

Unlike Sindhu, Sen has a tricky highway forward as he’s up in opposition to second seeded Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand within the opening spherical. The Thai shuttler is a World Championship silver medallist in Tokyo final 12 months and a three-time junior world champion.

In the lads’s doubles, the Indian problem will likely be led by Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Panjala, who open their marketing campaign in opposition to Julien Maio and William Villeger of France.

The Indian duo had suffered a primary spherical exit within the Taipei Open Super 300 occasion final month.

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