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Top Indian shuttlers, organisers and fans would each beryllium hoping to extremity the agelong drought for a location champion erstwhile the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Super 750 begins present connected Tuesday.
The marquee $950,000 lawsuit successful the Indian badminton calendar has not had an Indian champion since 2022 arsenic the likes of P.V. Sindhu and Lakshya Sen lead the host’s challenge, looking to person their caller bully tally into results.
But it would not beryllium casual with Lakshya, who finished 2025 with the Australian Open title, drawn against compatriot and erstwhile World inferior championships bronze medallist Ayush Shetty in the opening circular and Sindhu playing Vietnam’s Thuy Linh Nguyen, to whom she mislaid some her encounters successful 2025.
The 2 are besides the past Indian winners of the tourney — Lakshya in 2022 and Sindhu in 2017 — on with the duo of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, besides successful 2022.
While both Ayush and Lakshya were ousted successful the 2nd circular astatine the Malaysia Open past week, Sindhu reached the semifinals and Sat-Chi made it to the quarterfinals. World No. 1 An Se Young, meanwhile, portion commencement disconnected against Nozomi Okuhara
The duo was besides the astir palmy Indian connected the circuit successful 2025 contempt persistent wounded struggles, winning bronze astatine the World Championships and qualifying for the knockout signifier of the World Tour Finals. The World No. 3 would privation to acceptable the grounds consecutive here, starting with the American brace of Zhi Yi Chen and Presley Smith.
H.S. Prannoy, who made it to the main gully aft Anders Antonsen withdrew, volition beryllium up against Hong Kong’s Cheuk Yiu Lee portion K. Srikanth will look World No. 12 Lin Chun-Yi of Taiwan.
The tourney has besides moved to the overmuch larger Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium from the smaller K.D. Jadhav Hall and volition beryllium a trial lawsuit for the World Championships successful August.
