Denmark Open Super Series Badminton tournment to begin today

The Denmark Open Super Series Premier Badminton tournament will begin today at Odense. 

Rio Olympics and World Championship silver medalist PV Sindhu will begin her campaign against world No. 10 China's Chen Yufei, a rival she had beaten in the World Championship in August.

Saina Nehwal will be looking for her first super series win in 16 months. She had won the Australia Open last year in June, 2016. The World No. 12 bagged a bronze at the World Championship. She faces the fifth seeded Spaniard Carolina Marin in the opening round.

In men's singles, Kidambi Srikanth starts as hot favourite



after his three back-to-back final appearances out of which he won two titles at Indonesia and Australia.

Indian men's doubles pair of Manu Attri and B Sumeeth Reddy, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are also in the fray.

Women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will also look for a good outing, while Satwiksairaj and Ashwini, who reached the mixed doubles semifinals at Dutch Open Grand Prix last week, will also look to continue their good run.

Today, Commonwealth Games champion P Kashyap will open his campaign against Denmark's Victor Svendsen.