Lucknow: Top Indian shuttlers P Kashyap in the men\u2019s section and Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal in the women\u2019s section would be the biggest attraction at the USD 120,000 prize-money Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold Badminton Tournament, scheduled to start tomorrow, at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, BBD UP Badminton Academy here.<\/p>\n
Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association is organizing the six-day event with the opening day of the prestigious event witnessing just qualifying matches. The real action starts on Wednesday, when all the top guns rub shoulders against each other.<\/p>\n
P Kashyap and Saina Nehwal have been given top billing in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles, respectively. Current women\u2019s national champion Sindhu has been seeded second, where as Ajay Jayaram is the seeded second in the men\u2019s section. National men\u2019s champion K Srikanth is the sixth seeded.<\/p>\n
SEEDINGS Women\u2019s singles:<\/strong> 1-Saina Nehwal (Ind), 2-PV Sindhu (Ind), 3-Nichaon Jindapon (Tha), 4-Lindaweni Fanetri (Ina), 5-Bellaetrix Manuputty (Ina), 6-Deng Xuan (Chn), 7-Desi Hera (Ina), 8-Di Suo (Chn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lucknow: Top Indian shuttlers P Kashyap in the men\u2019s section and Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal in the women\u2019s section would be the biggest attraction at the USD 120,000 prize-money Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold Badminton Tournament, scheduled to start tomorrow, at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, BBD UP Badminton Academy here.<\/p>\n Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association is organizing the six-day event with the opening day of the prestigious event witnessing just qualifying matches. The real action starts on Wednesday, when all the top guns rub shoulders against each other.<\/p>\n P Kashyap and Saina Nehwal have been given top billing in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles, respectively. Current women\u2019s national champion Sindhu has been seeded second, where as Ajay Jayaram is the seeded second in the men\u2019s section. National men\u2019s champion K Srikanth is the sixth seeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Men\u2019s singles:<\/strong> 1-P Kashyap (Ind), 2-Ajay Jayaram (Ind), 3-RMV Gurusaidutt (Ind), 4-Anand Pawar (Ind), 5-Brice Leverdez (Fra), 6-K Srikanth (Ind), 7-HS Prannoy (Ind), 8-Sourabh Verma (Ind), 9-Song Xue (Chn), 10-Misha Zilberman (Isr).<\/p>\n