The right-arm fast-bowler has played 90 T20s and picked up 101 T20 wickets in his career
The Rio silver medallist is skipping the ongoing Denmark Open as the BWF World Tour season resumed following a seven-month shutdown due to the Covid-19 crisis and will make her return when the Tour swings to Asia in January.
The 25-year-old, who resumed training at the national camp in Hyderabad in August after a four-month hiatus, will play in the Asia Open I (Jan. 12-17) and Asia Open II (Jan. 19-24) and believes her challengers in the top 10 will be well rested.
"I missed playing badminton. But I used to train every day at home so I'm in good shape... When I started playing again it took me one or two weeks to come back but I'm fine, I'm fit. I'm waiting for tournaments to start," world number seven Sindhu told Reuters.
"It's been seven months (without competitive action)... It's going to be a different game and challenging as everybody must have improved.
"It's not easy to say there's just one or two players because everybody will be challenging at the Olympics. Everybody is going to be in top form. The top 10 in the world are of the same standard so each one is challenging."
Sindhu, who last played at the All England Open in March and kept herself busy during the lockdown by painting and improving her cooking skills, said that the rest of her schedule before Tokyo is unclear.
"I'm positive and I'm practising so I hope everything goes on well," Sindhu added.
"I was a bit sad, but it's fine. The whole world came to a standstill and it was important to take care of ourselves. Life comes first."
The right-arm fast-bowler has played 90 T20s and picked up 101 T20 wickets in his career
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