Indian shuttlers, including Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu, will look to earn some valuable ranking points when they start their campaign in the Badminton Asia Championship, the last event before the Olympic qualification deadline, starting here on Wednesday.
After recovering from a nagging ankle injury, Saina had registered semifinal finishes in the Swiss Open, India Open and Malaysia Open before skipping the Singapore Open, and the fifth seeded Indian will now open her campaign here against Fitriani Fitriani of Indonesia on Wednesday.
World No 10 Sindhu will start her campaign here against Maria Febe Kusumastuti of Indonesia.
In men's singles, World No. 13 Kidambi Srikanth will face Korea's lee Dong Keun. 2010 Commonwealth Games champion pair Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa will face Korean pair of Chang Ye Na and lee So Hee.
World No. 20 men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy will meet Japan's Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa.