Youngsters Malvika Bansod and Kiran George will spearhead the Indian challenge at the Orleans Masters 2024 badminton tournament in France.
Orleans Masters Super 300 2024 is set to start on March 12 and will run until March 17. The inaugural edition of the badminton tournament was held in 2012 as a BWF Super 100 series. However, in the 2023 season, it was upgraded to BWF Super 300.
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Youngsters Malvika Bansod and Kiran George will spearhead the Indian challenge at the Orleans Masters 2024 badminton tournament in France, starting on Tuesday. The 22-year-old Bansod won the Azerbaijan International last month and is seeded eighth in the women’s singles at the BWF Super 300 event.
World No. 37 Kiran George, who made the quarter-finals at the Indonesia Masters in January, will lead India in men’s singles. The 24-year-old George is seeded third and starts against compatriot Sathish Kumar Karunakaran. S Subramanian, the 2022 World Junior Championships silver medallist and Mithun Manjunath, who accounted for World Championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth at the Thailand Masters, are also in the fray.
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Indian badminton player Priyanshu Rajawat won the men’s singles crown last year but won’t compete at this year’s Orleans Masters. Instead, world No. 29 Rajawat will play at the All England Open BWF Super 1000 event this week to boost his rankings before the qualification window for the Olympics closes next month.
Furthermore, the world No. 1 men’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will also not compete at Orleans. In their absence, MR Arjun-Dhruv Kapila, seeded fifth, will be India’s top-rated pair. On the other hand, women’s doubles features Simran Singhi and Ritika Thaker. Both of them will start as the second seeds. B Sumeeth Reddy-N Sikki Reddy, unseeded, will compete in mixed doubles.
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Men’s singles:
Qualifiers:
Women’s singles:
Qualifiers:
Men’s doubles:
Women’s doubles:
Mixed doubles:
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Live streaming of the Orleans Masters 2024 badminton will be available on the Badminton World Federation’s official YouTube channel BWF TV till the quarter-final stage.
However, from the semi-finals, JioCinema will livestream Orleans Masters 2024 in India and the live telecast will be on the Sports 18 and Sports 18 HD TV channels.
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