PV Sindhu vs Kaloyana Nalbantova Live, Badminton World Championships 2025: Sindhu in action first, followed by Prannoy

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PV Sindhu vs Kaloyana Nalbantova, Badminton World Championships Live Updates: PV Sindhu, India’s most successful shuttler at the BWF World Championships, will begin yet another campaign on Tuesday. The 2019 World Champion kicks off her quest for a sixth medal with an opening round match against Bulgarian teenager Kaloyana Nalbantova. Sindhu is currently ranked 15th in the world while her opponent Kaloyana is No 69; this will be the first meeting on the tour between the two shuttlers.

Sindhu, after missing out on a hat-trick of Olympic medals at Paris 2024 last year, returns to the same venue – the Adidas Arena – without too much momentum as 2025 has seen the superstar struggle for consistency on the tour. Read more from Shivani Naik about how Sindhu can break out her funk and sparkle again with tactical help from coach Irwansyah.

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Later in the day, HS Prannoy, the country’s most recent medallist after his triumph in Copenhagen, takes on Finnish world No 48 Joakim Oldorff.

On Monday, Lakshya Sen was knocked out in the opening round by world No 1 Shi Yu Qi in straight games, 17-21 19-21.

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How PV Sindhu can break out her funk and sparkle again with tactical help from coach Irwansyah

Sindhu PV Sindhu in action. (FILE photo)

What if broken tapes gather a chorus, and even start to echo? They begin to sound un-broken. It’s PV Sindhu‘s game in a nutshell, around the World Championships.

There is consensus among all her coaches – from the earliest and most elite one in Hyderabad to the enterprising yet ephemeral ones that chose to not stay on – that the Indonesian coach Irwansyah, is best equipped to be there, court-side for PV Sindhu, and help her out of her funk. A lot can, and will, go sideways, as the beleaguered Indian attempts to add to her collection of five World Championship medals, given the all round loud pronouncements that she’s finished.

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