Swiss Open 2023

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Men’s singles

Main draw - Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy,

Qualifiers - Sameer Verma, Kiran George, Mithun Manjunath, Meiraba Luwang Maisnam, Priyanshu Rajawat

Women’s singles

Main draw - PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal

Qualifiers - Aakarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod

Men’s doubles

Main draw - Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, MR Arjun/Dhruv Kapila, Krishna Prasad Garaga/Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala

Women’s doubles

Main draw - Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand, Ashwini Bhat K/Shikha Gautam

Qualifiers - Reddy Sikki/Arathi Sara Sunil, Haritha Manazhiyil H/Ashna Roy

**Mixed doubles **

Qualifiers - Rohan Kapoor/Reddy Sikki, Reddy B Sumeeth/Ashwini Ponnappa

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India’s top badminton players, including reigning champion PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen, will be in action at the Swiss Open 2023, which will be held from March 21 to 26 in Basel.

https://olympics.com/en/news/swiss-open ... g-telecast

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Swiss Open: Lakshya Sen knocked out, dreadful run continues

https://thebridge.in/badminton/swiss-op ... ium=social

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[jayakris]

What has been going wrong with Lakshya these days? He looks lakhshyaheena (aimless).

[rajitghosh]

Lakshya basically has a very defensive game. He is a retriever and not good in attacking. His ability to win depends on having ling rallies and tiring out the opponent without tiring himself. Against fitter and more powerful opponents he is struggling. The competitors have worked out his game and exploit his weak points.

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Someone in the forum once said that Lakshya sen soon will be worked out by opponents....seems like it is getting proved true!!!

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What is problem with India's domestic badminton circuit?

[rajitghosh]

Even Sindhu lost. Her problem is speed. She has become slow. Unfortunately singles is in bad shape in India.
Gopi needs to take a few players under his wings.

[rajitghosh]

What is problem with India's domestic badminton circuit?

In my opinion nothing is wrong. In fact at ground level it is in far better shape than most other sports. We'll keep producing players ranked between 25-50. What is wrong is coaches who can make these players top 5, physios who can keep them injury free and make them fit and fast

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Satwik/Chirag reach quarterfinals......That is the only good news. Rest crashes out.