“I don’t think so,” said Sindhu, when asked the question at an interaction with the media on the 50-day countdown to the Tokyo Games.
“In the women’s circuit, the top 10 players are of the same standard so you can’t take it easy if one player is out, due to an injury. If you look back, there’s Tai Tzu Ying, Ratchanok, Okuhara, Yamaguchi and An Seyoung and you can’t say that since one player isn’t there, then it might be easy. I don’t think so,” she added.
Sindhu, the Rio Olympics’ silver-medallist, will be the only Indian in the women’s singles draw after Saina Nehwal failed to make the qualification cut – following the cancellation of BWF events that were slated to take place this summer.
The pressure for a second medal will be immense for the 25-year-old who insists that despite some below par outings this year, her form is close to peaking in time for the Tokyo Games.
“When I started playing this year, initially, I didn’t do so well because maybe, you know, there…