Lakshya Sen Comeback , Arctic Open Super 500 Badminton Tournament: India's star players PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen, who failed to win medals in the Paris Olympics, will make a comeback to the international level from the Arctic Open Super 500 Badminton Tournament starting on Tuesday. This will be the first tournament for Sindhu and Sen after the Olympics. In the meantime, both of them focused on evaluating their game and making necessary improvements to it.

Sindhu meanwhile parted ways with her previous coach Indonesia's Agus Dwi Santoso and appointed India's Anup Sridhar and Korean veteran Lee Soon Il as her new coaches. On the other hand, Sen focused on her fitness. During this time, she spent most of her time at Austria's Red Bull Arena. Sindhu's first match in the Arctic Open will be against Canada's Michelle Lee, while Sen, who lost in the bronze medal match at the Olympics, will face Denmark's Rasmus Gemke.

If two-time Olympic medallist Sindhu gets over the first hurdle, she could face 2022 junior world champion Tomoko Miyazaki, an 18-year-old Japanese player, in the next round, to whom she lost at the Swiss Open earlier this year. For Sen, this will also be a chance to take revenge on Gemke. He lost to her at the India Open in 2023. If he manages to win this match, he could next face seventh seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei.

Kidambi Srikanth, who returned to the Macau Open after being out for four months due to injury, will also present his challenge in the Arctic Open. He will start his campaign from the qualifiers along with compatriots Kiran George and Satish Kumar Karunakaran. In the qualifiers, former world number one Srikanth will face George, while Satish will face France's Arnaud Merkle.

Apart from Sindhu, in-form Malvika Bansod and Aakarshi Kashyap will also challenge in women's singles. Malvika, who reached the quarterfinals of the China Open Super 1000, will face Sung Shuo Yun of Chinese Taipei in the first round, while Aakarshi will face Germany's Yvonne Lee. Another Indian player Unnati Hooda will face Israel's Heli Neeman in the qualifiers. No Indian is participating in men's doubles but Rituparna Panda and Swetaparna Panda will challenge in women's doubles while Satish and Aadya Variyath will challenge in mixed doubles.