Former world number 1 Saina Nehwal and her husband Parupalli Kashyap will be leading the India squad at the Taipei Open 2022 starting on Tuesday.
Former world number 1 Saina Nehwal and her husband Parupalli Kashyap will be leading the India squad at the Taipei Open 2022 starting on Tuesday. The Taipei Open is a BWF Super 300 tournament. The competition marks its return after a two-year hiatus this year due to COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the 15th tournament on the BWF Tour this year. India’s Kasyap is the only seeded player in the men’s singles draw from the country, while women’s singles player Nehwal is seeded fourth. Mithun Manjunath, who upset Kidambi Srikanth in the opening round of the Singapore open last week, will take on Kim Bruun in the first round here.
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Star Indian shuttlers PV Singu, Srikanth, HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen have skipped the Taipei Open. Even the men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag shetty have also given the Taipei Open a miss to prepare well for the Commonwealth Games. Meanwhile world number 70 Kiran George is part of the men’s singles draw, the 22-year-old will take on Azerbaijan’s Ade Dwichayo in the first round.
The 2022 Taipei Open will commence on July 19 and end on July 24.
Chou Tien Chen vs Lu Chia Hung
Kiran George vs Ade Resky Dwichayo
Yeoh Seng Zoe vs Q3
Q2 vs Priyanshu Rajawat
Parupalli Kashyap vs Q4
Luka Wraber vs Chia Hao Lee
Koki Watanabe vs Lin Yu Hsien
Chean June Wei vs Soon Joo Ven
Max Weisskirchen vs Danylo Bosniuk
Lucas Claerbout vs Khosit Phetpradab
Kim Bruun vs Mithun Manjunath
Yogor Coelho vs Kodai Naraoka
Chirag Sen vs Lin Chun-Yi
Adulrach Namkul vs Misha Zilberman
Subhankar Dey vs Q1
Ikhsan Rumbay vs Wang Tzu Wei
Tai Tzu Ying vs Polina Buhrova
Hung En-Tzu vs Jordan Hart
Pai Yu Po vs Smit Toshniwal
Thuy Linh Nguyen vs Q2
Tereza Svabikova vs Eoon Qi Xuan
Talia NG vs Lauren Lam
Aya Ohori vs Wen Chi Hsu
Samiya Imad Farooqui vs Kisona Silvaduray
Q3 vs Malvika Mansod
Jennie Gai vs Supanide Katethong
Natsuki Nidaira vs Sri Krishna Priya
Sung Shuo Yun vs Beiwen Zhang
Lin Hsiang vs Chiang Ying Li
Hung Yi-Tang vs Saena Kawakami Goh Jin Wei vs Tanya Hemanth
Q4 vs Chen So Yu
Ishaan Bhatnagar/ Sai Pratheek vs C Charoenkitamorn/ N Yordphaison
Krishna Prasad Garaga/ VG Panjala vs Law Cheuk Him/ Lee Reginald
PS Ravikrishna vs SP Udayakumar vs Lin Shang Kai/ Tseng Min Hao
Lin Yu Chieh/ Su Li Wei vs MR Arjun/ Dhruv Kapila
Chiu Pin-Chian/ Tung Ciou-Tong vs Tanisha Crasto/ Shruti Mishra
Misha Zilberman/ Svetlana Zilberman vs Ishaan Bhatnagar/ Tanisha Crasto
Badminton fans in India can watch live action on Voot Select and also at BWF official Youtube channel BWF TV.