It could be an all-Indian affair if Saina too can weave successive wins. Saina, who has slipped to world no 20, is expected to meet Thailand's world no.12 Busanan Ongbamrungphan, who has beaten the Indian in their last three meetings. In men's singles, a total of seven Indians, including former world No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth, Olympic-bound B Sai Praneeth and H S Prannoy, will be participating in the event. World No 14 Srikanth, who reached the quarterfinals at Denmark Open in October, will cross swords with fellow Indian Sourabh Verma in the opening round, while Praneeth, ranked 13th, will fight it out against local player Kantaphon Wangcharoen. HS Prannoy will take on eighth seed Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia, and former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap, who was supposed to meet Japan's Kenta Nishimoto, will face Canada's Jason Anthony Ho-Shue now. Sameer Verma faces Indonesia's Shesar Hiren Rhustavito.

The Indian men's pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, who have also qualified for the Tokyo Games, will face the Korean combination of Kim Gi Jung and Lee Yong Dae in the first event, the women's pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will take on fourth seeded Koreans Kim So Yeong and Kong Hee Yong. Satwik and Ashwini will join hands to face Indonesian sixth seeds Hafiz Faizal and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja. In men's doubles, Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy will square off against the local pair of Weeraphat Phakjarung and Wongsathorn Thongkham, while MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila will fight it out with Malaysian combo of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi.

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