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Saina, Srikanth upbeat as India chase medals at World Badminton Championships

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Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth will be at the forefront as a strong Indian badminton contingent look to create a flutter at the World Championships, starting from Monday.

It is for the first time that India will have two players in the top 5 — Saina (World No 2 in women’s singles) and Srikanth (World No 3 in men’s singles) — as they lead the biggest Indian contingent at the Championship.

It was young P V Sindhu, who clinched the bronze medal twice in 2013 and 2014 editions after women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa ended India’s 28-year-old medal drought at the World Championships in 2011. They will also be in action at the prestigious tournament, which will be held at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium.

A medal at the world meet has so far eluded Olympic bronze medallist Saina, who has not progressed beyond the quarter-finals five times, while for Srikanth it is just his second World Championship.

Saina has got a bye in the first round and will start her campaign in the second round, taking on the winner of the match between Hong Kong’s Cheung Ngan Yi and Kati Tolmoff of Estonia.

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