Orleans Masters Badminton Draws: After the Swiss Open, where PV Sindhu clinched the title, BWF’s Super 100 tournament Orleans Masters will begin from 29th March. The tournament will feature India’s players like Sai Praneeth, Aakarshi Kashyap, Malavika Bansod, Ashmitha Chaliha and several others. The draw has been already released on BWF’s official website. Follow InsideSport.IN for more updates.
Orleans Masters Badminton Draws: Top seed Sai Praneeth gets easy draw, Malavika Bansod, Aakarshi Kashyap & Ashmitha Chaliha eye good tournament – Follow LIVE updates
Men’s Singles
2019 World Championship bronze medallist Sai Praneeth is the first seed in the men’s singles. He has been granted a bye in the first round and will begin his campaign only from the second round.
Apart from him, no other Indian has been seeded in the singles. Other Indians in the men’s singles includes Rahul Yadav Chittaboina, Priyanshu Rajawat, Shubhankar Dey, Kaushal Dharmer and Chirag Sen, Mithun Manjunath, Kartikey Kumar, Siril Verma and Kiran George.
First Round fixtures
- Rahul Yadav Chittaboina vs Qualifier
- Shubhankar Dey [IND] vs Priyanshu Rajawat [IND]
- Siril Verma [IND] vs Arnaud Merkle [FRA]
- Chirag Sen [IND] vs Kushal Dharmamer [IND]
- Kiran George [IND] vs Joran Kweekel [NET]
Women’s Singles
In the Women’s Singles, Malavika Bansod will take on seventh seeded France’s Qi Xuefei in the first round. Other Indians in the fray are Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashmitha Chaliha and Anupama Upadhyay.
First Round fixtures
- Ashmitha Chaliha [IND] vs Putri Kusuma Wardhini [INS]
- Malavika Bansod [IND] vs Qi Xuefei [FRA]
- Aakarshi Kashyap [IND] vs Yulia Susanto [INS]
- Anupana Upadhyay [IND] vs Lianne Tan [BEL]
Men’s Doubles
In men’s doubles, Krishna Prasad Garaga and Vishnuvardhan Panjala have been seeded sixth in the tournament. They will take on another Indian duo PS Ravikrishna and Sankar Prasad Udaykumar in the opening round.
Sanyam Shukla and Arun George are the other Indian pair in this quarter and they will face France’s unseeded Julien Maio and Eloi Adam.
First Round fixtures
- Shyam Prasad-Sunjith [IND] vs Lamfuss-Seidel [GER]
- Bhatnagar-Sai Pratheek [IND] vs Chang-Yap [MAL]
- Ravikrishna-Udayakumar [IND] vs Garaga-Panjala [IND]
- George-Shukla [IND] vs Adam-Maio [FRA]
- Ranganatha-Surya [IND] vs Chia-Low [MAL]
Women’s Doubles
In the Women’s doubles, Rutaparna Panda and Swethaparna Panda will face top seed Stoeva sisters, who won the Swiss Open title.
The other Indian pairs include Haritha Harinarayanan & Ashna Roy, Simran Singhi & Ritika Thaker, K Ashwini Bhat & Shikha Gautam. All the Indian women’s doubles pair are unseeded.
First Round fixtures
- Rutuparna-Swethaparna [IND] vs Gabriela-Stefani [IND]
- Haritha-Roy [IND] vs Low-Siow [MAL]
- Singhi-Thaker [IND] vs Michalski-Volkmann [GER]
- Bhat-Gautam [IND] vs Busch-Schulz [DEN]
Mixed Doubles
- Surya-Panda [IND] vs Bhatnagar-Crasto [IND]
- Nithin-Panda [IND] vs Qualifier
Orleans Masters Badminton Draws: Top seed Sai Praneeth gets easy draw, Malavika Bansod, Aakarshi Kashyap & Ashmitha Chaliha eye good tournament – Follow LIVE updates
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