Difficult road for male commuters, Sindhu for Okuhara's revenge

The 24th World Badminton Championships start on July 30 in Nanjing, China with over 20 Indian players in the running. The draws of the championship, where PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal won the silver and bronze medals last year in Glasgow, were played on Tuesday and it seems like the road is difficult for some of the best shuttlers. from India.

Here is an overview of the draws of the Indian contingent:

Women's Singles

Sindhu and Saina both got a pbad in the first round. Third seed Sindhu will launch his Fitriani Fitriani or Linda Zetchiri campaign. She is attracted to play the ninth seeded Sung Ji Hyun in the third round, which will be her first real challenge. If all goes as planned, we could have a rematch of last year's epic final against defending champion Nozomi Okuhara in the quarterfinals this time

Saina, tenth seed, will play Sabrina Jaquet or Aliye Demirbag in the second round. But her biggest hurdle will be fourth seed Ratchanok Intanon, which she should face in the third round.

Meanwhile, Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying, winner of four events this year, will face American Beiwen Zhang in the third round, and Chinese He Bingjiao or Canadian Michelle Li in the quarterfinals.

Singles Gentlemen

The fifth seeded Kidmabi Srikanth will face Irishman Nhat Nguyen in the first round, but his road is tough. To reach the medal, he will have to beat the No. 13 seed Jonatan Christie, the 12th seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting and the second head Lee Chong Wei, who is in his quarter.

HS Prannoy, ranked 11th, begins his campaign against the New Zealander player of Indian origin Abhinav Manota. After that, the path becomes difficult as he has Wong Wing Ki Vincent and seventh seed Chou Tien Chen in his section of the chart. If he manages to pbad, there is a possible meeting with Lin Dan in the neighborhoods.

Sai Praneeth, on the other hand, will have the biggest test in the first round himself while he is attracted to the fourth seed, Son Wan Ho. Sameer Verma will start against Lucas Corvee and could have a second round against Lin Dan.

Reigning world champion Viktor Axelsen is the favorite to face Olympic champion Chen Long in the quarterfinals, while Shi Yuqi and five-time champion Lin Dan could meet in the third round of the second quarter.

Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy start against Daniel Nikolov and Ivan Rusev of Bulgaria, while Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy take on Englishman Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge in a rematch.

Arjun MR and Ramchandran Shlok will face Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi while Kona Tarun and Saurabh Sharma will play Gold Chin Chung and Tang Chun Man.

India has four pairs in the women's doubles well. Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will face Chiang Kai Hsin and Hung Shih Han, Kuhoo Garg and Ningshi Block Hazarika will play Chang Ching Hui and Yang Ching Tun.

Jakkampudi Meghana and Poorvisha S Ram will open their campaign against Debora Jille and Imke Van Der Aar, while Sanyogita Ghorpade and Prajakta Sawant will play against Bengisu Ercetin and Nazlıcan Inci

In mixed doubles, Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy will start their campaign against Jakub Bitman and Alzbeta Basova while Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa will play against Niclas Nohr and Sara Thygesen.

Saurabh Sharma and Anoushka Parikh are attracted to Enejoh Abah and Peace Orji while Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg will play Toby NG and Rachel Honderich.