Saina Nehwal will look to clinch the Malaysia Masters title as she begins the year's international campaign in the season-opening Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament which starts with the qualifiers at Sarawak in Malaysia today. Saina had good match practice when she competed at the just-concluded Premier Badminton League, where she won three matches while losing to Olympic champion Carolina Marin and silver medallist PV Sindhu. Still in the process of reaching her best form, top seed Saina will look to grab the opportunity, especially since none of the top shuttlers are participating in the tournament. In the women's singles, Rituparna Das will face Chinese Taipei's Chiang Mei Hui and Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli will fight it out against sixth seed Jin Wei Goh of Malaysia. In men's singles, P Kashyap will be missing in action as he has been ruled out for three months after hurting his shoulder during the PBL, but sixth seed Ajay Jayaram, who has been in good form in the domestic league, will take on a qualifier on the opening day of the main draw. In the men's doubles, Jishnu Sanyal and Shivam Sharma, Arjun MR and Ramchandran Shlok and Francis Alwin and Kona Tarun are also in the fray. Newly-formed women's doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy will face Malaysian combo of Yea Ching Goh and Khe Wei Woon. Among others, Sruthi KP and Haritha Manazhiyil Harinarayanan, Mahima Aggarwal and Maneesha K and Aparna Balan and Prajakta Sawant will also compete in the tournament. In the mixed doubles, seventh seeds Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki will face Malaysian pair of Hang Yee Low and Yee See Cheah. Jwala Gutta will pair up with Manu Attri when they face Indonesia's Lukhi Apri Nugroho and Ririn Amelia, while Ashwini will combine with Sumeeth to take on sixth seed Indonesian pair of Tontowi Ahmad and Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.