World Badminton Championships 2023 will begin at Copenhagen in Denmark from 21st of this month. Indian shuttler PV Sindhu was handed a first-round bye in the Women’s Singles draw for Championships held at the Badminton World Federation headquarters at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, yesterday.

In the Men’s Singles, Indian shuttlers received favourable draws. Ninth seed HS Prannoy will open his campaign against Finland’s Kalle Koljonen. Lakshya Sen will begin campaign against Georges Julien Paul of Mauritius. Kidambi Srikanth, was unseeded in the draw and will face a much tougher opponent in Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto. Men’s doubles second seeds Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy were handed a bye in the opening round and so were Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, the 15th seeds in women’s doubles.