Defending champion Saina Nehwal has been seeded second in the women’s singles competition of the $750,000 Australian Open Super Series badminton tournament that will get underway here on May 26.
The world No. 2 Indian will take on a qualifier in her campaign opener.
The other Indian in women’s singles, world no. 11 P.V. Sindhu is unseeded and will face former world champion Chinese Yihan Wang.
Three Indians will compete in the men’s singles competition with world no. 4 Kidambi Srikanth, who has been seeded fourth, taking on Danish Hans-Kristian Vittinghus in his opening match. Commonwealth Games champion P. Kashyap will face Chinese sixth seed Wang Zhengming, while Indonesia Masters winner, H.S. Prannoy will open against China’s Tian Houwei.
India’s men’s doubles pair of Pranaav Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar will meet Cai Yun and Kang Jun, while Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa will face Dutch pair Samantha Barning and Iris Tabeling.
