Paris Olympics 2024: P.V. Sindhu, H.S. Prannoy Get Favourable Groups, Lakshya Sen Drawn With Jonatan Christie

Kaula Lumpur: Two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu and debutant H.S. Prannoy got necessary companies when Lakshya Sen has been drawn with World No. Three Jonatan Christie just because the draw for the badminton things to do on the Paris Olympics 2024 was once held relevant here at BWF Headquarters on Friday.

Sindhu, who gained a silver in the 2016 Video games in Rio and bronze in the Tokyo Olympics, has been seeded 10th seed in females’s singles and is put in Crew M with Estonia’s Kristin Kuuba (world No. seventy 5) and Maldives’ Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq (world No. 111). In Paris, Sindhu hopes to change into the first Indian to win an original medal in three successive Olympic Video games.

In the grownup men’s singles, Prannoy, who will likely be performing in his maiden Olympics, has been seeded thirteenth and put in Crew Chuffed with Vietnam’s Le Duc Phat (world No. 70) and Germany’s Fabian Roth (world No. eighty two).

India will even have participants in females’s doubles (Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa) and grownup men’s doubles (Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty) moreover one athlete in the females’s singles (Sindhu) and two in the grownup men’s singles (Prannoy and Lakshya Sen).

World No. 19 Indian Lakshya Sen, then as soon as more, remained unseeded. He has been drawn in Crew L with Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie (world No. Three) and Guatemala’s Kevin Cordon, who done fourth in the Tokyo Olympics together with world No. fifty two, Belgian shuttler Julien Carragi.

The females’s doubles pair of Tanisha and Ashwini, ranked nineteenth on earth, has got a fancy draw as it in level of actuality is miles drawn in Crew C alongside fourth seed Jap pair Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida, world No. 7 South Korea’s Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong and Australia’s Setyana Mapasa and Angela Yu.

than the crew stage draw for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, the world badminton physique announced that “Following a Courtroom of Arbitration of Recreation (CAS) listening to, BWF will conduct the grownup men’s doubles draw on but another date but to be determined.”

The badminton things to do at Paris will start out on July 27 with the crew phases going for walks except July 31.

In whole, 174 athletes from forty eight NOCs plus one athlete from the IOC Refugee Olympic Crew have qualified for Paris.

The three final conditional areas belonging to Howard Shu (USA), Tobias Kuenzi (SUI), and Collins Valentine Filimon (AUT) had been all neatly-steady formerly this week consequently of their respective NOCs.

Badminton companies:

Adult females’s Singles-

Crew M: PV Sindhu (seeded 10), Kristin Kuuba (Estonia), Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq (Maldives)

Males’s Singles-

Crew Ok: HS Prannoy (seeded 13), Le Duc Phat (Vietnam), Fabian Roth (Germany)

Crew L: Lakshya Sen, Jonatan Christie (Indonesia), Kevin Cordon (Guatemala), Julien Carragi (Belgium)

Adult females’s Doubles-

Crew C: Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa, Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida (Japan), Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong (South Korea), Setyana Mapasa and Angela Yu Australia)