BWF World Tour Finals: Badminton World Federation (BWF) has released a list of qualifiers for the year-end BWF World Tour finals. The Top 8 players of this season from the BWF World Tour will all play in the season finale that is all set to be held in Bangkok from December 7 to 11. Two Indians – PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy – have been included among the lost of qualified players for the tournament. Follow BWF World Tour Finals 2022 LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN
BWF World Tour Finals: HS Prannoy and injured PV Sindhu make it to the list of qualifiers for BWF World Tour Finals, Lakshya Sen & Kidambi Srikanth fail to make the cut – Check Out
Rising stars 🌟Kodai Naraoka @naraoka_k 🇯🇵 and the Aimsaard sisters’ 🇹🇭 breakthrough performances this season were rewarded with qualifying spots at the #BWFWorldTourFinals.#Bangkok2022 https://t.co/ebjbHT9I5J
— BWF (@bwfmedia) November 23, 2022
The Australian Open 2022, which concluded in Sydney on Sunday, was the final qualifying event for the BWF World Tour Finals. The top eight players in the World Tour Rankings, with a maximum of two per Member Association in each category, will be invited to the season finale. Players who have won the World championship are also assured of automatic qualification.
In the Men’s Singles, HS Prannoy finished third in the BWF World Tour Rankings and has qualified for the event. He is the only Indian men’s singles player top make the cut as World No.7 Lakshya Sen and World No.11 Kidambi Srikanth couldn’t secure spots in the tournament as they finished 11th and 10th in the race to the BWF World Tour finals.
In the Women’s Singles, Sindhu finds herself in the list of qualifiers as she has finished fifth in the race to the BWF World Tour finals. However, the World No.7 will not be participating as she has pulled out from the tournament. She is yet to recover from the stress fracture that she suffered during the Commonwealth Games 2022.
The tournament which was originally scheduled to be held at Guangzhou in China, has been relocated to Nimibutr Arena in Bangkok, Thailand due to the Covid-9 pandemic. Now the tournament will run from 7-11 December – one week earlier than the scheduled dates.
