In the Malaysian Open Badminton tournament, Rio Olympics Silver medalist PV Sindhu, who won her first India Open recently, and Saina Nehwal will spearhead the Indian challenge.In women's singles event, in the opening round, sixth seeded Sindhu will take on China's Chen Yufei while Saina will meet 4th seeded Akane Yamaguchi of Japan.In the men's singles event, Ajay Jayaram will face Chinese Qiao Bin and B Sai Praneeth will take on 7th seeded Lin Dan.One Indian pair in each Men's Doubles and Mixed doubles will also be playing their first round matches today. However, after qualifying for the main draw, women's duo of Ashwini Ponappa and N Sikki Reddy lost their match to top seed Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi 19-21,15-21.