PV Sindhu, one of India’s flag bearers at the Commonwealth Games 2022, looked gorgeous in the opening ceremony dress. Sindhu also wore a long bandhgala like other athletes and looked stunningly beautiful in it. The two-time Olympic medalist will be in action soon, but before that she will be a proud flag bearer for India at the CWG 2022 opening ceremony alongside hockey captain Manpreet Singh.
Take a look at pictures of Sindhu from the opening ceremony of CWG 2022:
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India, which emerged as the most successful team in the Gold Coast with six medals – similar to England, who had less of a silver medal, are the defending champions in the mixed team competition, having won the title four years earlier in the Gold Coast ahead of Malaysia . , He has stars like former world No. 1 and former world champion PV Sindhu, two-time Olympic medalist, Kidambi Srikanth, silver medalist at the World Championship in December 2021 and Lakshya Sen, a bronze medalist in the World Championship. Started the year on a grand note by winning the India Open and runner-up at the All-England Championship here.
In men’s doubles, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are ranked eighth in the world.
Apart from Pakistan, the other teams in Group 1 are Australia and Sri Lanka in the four-team preliminary round. The other three groups in the 16-team competition are: Group 2 – hosts England, Singapore, Mauritius and Barbados; Group 3 – Canada, Scotland, Maldives and Uganda while Group 4 will feature second-seeded Malaysia, South Africa, Jamaica and Zambia, who came in place of Nigeria, who were eliminated after a draw a few weeks ago.
After the preliminary round matches, the top two teams will qualify for the knockout quarter-finals.
If things go according to priority, India and Malaysia are likely to fight for the gold medal. However, Indian players like Srikanth and Lakshya have produced indifferent results in BWF tournaments in the build-up to the Commonwealth Games, and hence the team management is likely to put them in the first few matches to help warm up for the tougher bouts later. competition.
India are the world champions in the men’s team event having won their maiden Thomas Cup title a few months back and Sindhu is also in top form and won the Singapore Open earlier this month.
She will be the favorite for the singles title, while in men’s singles, Loh Keen Yew of Singapore, defending world champion and Lee Zi Jia of Malaysia are ranked higher than the Indian players and will be the favorites for the title. ,
In the 2018 edition, Sindhu and Saina Nehwal won the gold medal with Saina in the women’s singles final. Sindhu looks best suited to win the women’s title this time as World No.
IANS. with inputs of