In-form HS Prannoy will be in the spotlight as India’s top shuttlers gear up for some tough opening-round matches at the Indonesia Open, a BWF Super 1000 tournament, beginning here on Tuesday.

Prannoy, who claimed the Malaysia Masters Super 300 title last month, looks ready to go deep into the tournament, where the creme-de-la-creme of world badminton are set to compete this week.

The world No. 8 Indian will be up against Kenta Nishimoto of Japan and a first-round win is likely to pit him against China’s Shi Yuqi next.

Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and 2021 world championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth will also look to improve their showings as they haven’t been in the best of form this season.

Sindhu made first-round exits from the last two events, while Srikanth had a couple of quarter-final finishes at Malaysia and Spain and they will have their task cut out against Indonesia’s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung and China’s Lu Guang Zu, respectively, in the opening round.

Former world No. 1 Saina Nehwal is pitted against seventh-seeded Chinese Wang Zhi Yi.

Lakshya Sen showed sparks of regaining some form when he reached the semi-finals at Thailand Open. The 2021 World Championships bronze medallist will open his campaign against world No.10 and eighth seed Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia.

Commonwealth Games champion and the world No. 5 men’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will face nemesis Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo of Indonesia in the opening round.

Satwik and Chirag will have to dig deep into their reservoir to get the better of the Indonesian pair, whom they have never beaten in 11 meetings.