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Tokyo Olympics: Sindhu, Praneeth get straightforward attracts; powerful job for Chirag-Satwik

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Rio Games silver medallist and reigning world champion P V Sindhu and B Sai Praneeth have been handed straightforward attracts for the Tokyo Olympics starting July 23.
While Sindhu has been seeded sixth and drawn in Group J of girls’s singles, Praneeth was seeded thirteenth in Group D of males’s singles competitors.
World no 10 males’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy might be competing in Group A.
Sindhu will face Hong Kong’s world quantity 34 Cheung Ngan Yi and Israel’s Ksenia Polikarpova, ranked 58th, within the league levels, whereas Praneeth should go previous world no 29 Mark Caljouw of Netherlands and Isreal’s Misha Zilberman, ranked 47.
Chirag and Satwiksairaj, nonetheless, have been handed a troublesome draw which was introduced by BWF on Thursday.
The Indian duo should compete in opposition to prime seed Indonesian pair of Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, Chinese Taipei’s world no 3 Lee yang and Wang Chi Lin and England duo of Ben Lane and Sean Vendy, ranked 18th.
In the singles competitors, the highest participant from every group will qualify for the knock-out levels.