Overview

• The BWF Super 500 tournament starts Tuesday in Hong Kong, a key stop for consolidating post-Worlds form and ranking points.
• World No. 3 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are seeded eighth and open against Chinese Taipei’s Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Wang Chi-Lin.
• Men’s singles openers include Ayush Shetty vs Lu Guang Zu, Lakshya Sen vs Wang Tzu Wei, and HS Prannoy vs fifth seed Kodai Naraoka.
• Doubles and mixed campaigns feature Hariharan Amsakarunan/Ruban Kumar Rethinasabapathi and the Panda sisters, while Dhruv Kapila/Tanisha Crasto face Chen Cheng Kuan/Hsu Yin-Hui and Rohan Kapoor/Gadde Ruthvika Shivani draw second seeds Feng Yan Zhe/Huang Dong Ping.
• Qualifying sets up an all-Indian match between Kidambi Srikanth and Tharun Mannepalli, with Kiran George and S Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian also in action.