Denmark Open badminton 2022 Live stream free on 20 october 2022
Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy and doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will also be competing at the BWF Super 750 event. Watch live!
With two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu out till December with an injury, the Indian challenge at the Denmark Open 2022 will be led by Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and Saina Nehwal.
The Denmark Open 2022 BWF Super 750 event will start on October 18 at Odense and the finals are scheduled on October 23. The tournament will be live streamed in India.
India have sent a 10-member contingent - four singles (three men’s and one women’s) and three doubles pairs (one each in men’s women’s and mixed) - for the upcoming badminton tournament.
London 2012 Olympic medallist Saina Nehwal will be the solitary Indian entry in women’s singles. The Indian shuttler hasn’t won any title since the 2019 Indonesia Masters. Saina Nehwal has only been able to make the semi-finals of 2019 Malaysia Masters and 2021 Orleans Masters since then.
Saina Nehwal, the current world No. 32 in the badminton world rankings, will start her campaign against China’s Zhang Yi Man in the first round.
Interestingly, Saina Nehwal is the only Indian to have won the women’s singles title at the Denmark Open, having secured it in 2012.
Prakash Padukone (1980) and Kidambi Srikanth (2017) are the only two other Indian Denmark Open champions.
Former world No. 1 and world championship finalist Kidambi Srikanth will also be hoping to recreate the magic from 2017 and will be joined by compatriots Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy in the men’s singles draw.
Both Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy have been in sensational form this season. While Lakshya Sen recently won the Commonwealth Games 2022 gold medal, HS Prannoy’s consistency in 2022 has seen him rise to the No. 1 spot in the BWF World Tour Rankings.
Sen, however, will have a tough start to his campaign, having been drawn against Indonesia’s Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist and the sixth seed in the tournament.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, seventh seeds in men’s doubles, are the only seeded Indians at the Denmark Open 2022.
Top Indian shuttlers will be back in action this week as the Denmark Open gets underway in Odense, Denmark, on October 18.
India's highest-ranked men's singles shuttler, World No. 8 Lakshya Sen, will spearhead the nation's challenge at this prestigious BWF Super 750 event, which has been held since 1935. The Commonwealth Games gold medalist begins his title hunt in a tough first-round clash with World No. 6 and Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.
Former champions Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth are also part of the contingent. While Nehwal won the event in 2012, she finished as the runner-up to Tai Tzu-ying six years later. This time she opens her title bid against World No. 30 Zhang Yi Man, a semifinalist at the German Open earlier this year.
Srikanth, meanwhile, accounted for the current world champion and World No. 1 Viktor Axelsen on his way to winning the Denmark Open in 2017. The World No. 11, a bronze medalist at this year's Commonwealth Games, takes on 14th-ranked NG Ka Long Angus in the first round.
HS Prannoy, a quarterfinalist at the BWF World Championships, will play his first tournament post his wedding. The Keralite has World No. 19 Zhao Jun Peng first up.
Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu will be a major absentee at this tournament as she continues to recover from the ankle injury she sustained on her way to winning Commonwealth Games gold.
BWF World Championships bronze medal-winning men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty are seeded seventh in this Super 750 event. They take on Korea's Kang Min Hyuk/Seo Seung Jae in their opener.
Young doubles pairs — Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand and Tanisha Crasto/Ishaan Bhatnagar — will hope to gain some valuable experience at this tournament.
Indian badminton contingent at Denmark Open 2022
Men's singles
Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy
Women's singles
Saina Nehwal
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty
Women's doubles
Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand
Mixed doubles
Ishaan Bhatnagar/Tanisha Crasto
Denmark Open 2022 schedule
The Super 750 tournament will take place at the Jyske Bank Arena in Odense from October 18-23.
The first-round matches will be held over two days from October 18-19. The second-round action will be completed on October 20.
The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are scheduled to take place on October 21, 22 and 23, respectively.
Kidambi Srikanth and the women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand will be in action on the first day of the tournament. While Srikanth takes on NG Ka Long Angus, Treesa and Gayatri will face the Danish pair of Alexandra Boje/Amalie Magelund.
Denmark Open 2022: Where to watch & live stream details
The Denmark Open 2022 will be broadcast live in India on Sports18 1 and Sports18 1 HD channels from October 18. The matches can also be streamed live on Voot Select.