Denmark Open 2024: Indian badminton stars PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen will try to return to form through the $ 850,000 Denmark Open Super 750 tournament starting on Tuesday. Both the players had an average performance at the Arctic Open in Vantaa, Finland last week. Former world champion Sindhu was eliminated in the first round while 2021 World Championship bronze medalist Sen lost in the second round.

Sen, who finished fourth in the Paris Olympics, was defeated by Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei. Now here he will face China's Lu Guang Zhu in the first round, with whom he has his first encounter. In the second round, he can face Indonesia's Jonathan Christie. World champion Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn can be a contender in the quarter-finals. Two-time Olympic medalist Sindhu will have to improve her performance a lot, who lost to Canada's Michelle Lee in the first round.

Under the guidance of new coach Anup Sridhar and Korea's Lee Hyun Il, she will play against Pei Yu Po of Chinese Taipei in the first round. She may face China's Han Yui in the second round. In the women's category, in-form Malvika Bansod, Aakarshi Kashyap, and Unnati Hooda will also play. Bansod, who reached the quarterfinals of the China Open, will face Vietnam's Nguyen T Linh in the first round while Kashyap will face Thailand's Supanida Ketthong.

Odisha Open 2022 winner Hooda will face Lauren Lam of the US. India has no team in the men's doubles while Trisa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will play in the women's doubles. Both will face fifth-seeded Malaysia's Pearly Tan and T Muralidharan. Swetaparna and Rituparna Panda will face Chang Ching Hui and Yang Ching Tung of Chinese Taipei. In mixed doubles, B Sumeeth Reddy and Sikki Reddy will face Kevin Lee and Eliana Zhang of Canada while Satish Karunakaran and Aadya Variyath will face Rehan K and Lisa Kusumawati of Indonesia.