After the Tokyo Olympics were postponed, the World Badminton Federation announced at the end of last month that it would “freeze” the world ranking, and said it would start the evaluation process to confirm how the Olympic qualification system would be affected.
Xinhua News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, April 6 (reporter Lin Hao) the World Badminton Federation said on the 6th that in view of the continuous global spread of the new coronavirus epidemic, decided to suspend the World Tour and other world badminton league events scheduled to be held from May this year to July.
The World Badminton Federation said in a statement that in view of the spread of the epidemic, the World Badminton Federation made a decision to suspend the competition after discussing with the host association and the Continental Association. The highest level event involved in this decision was the super 1000 Indonesian open of the world tour scheduled to be held on June 16-21. Other events include the Australian Open in June 2-7, the Thai open in June 9-14, and the Russian Open in July 7-12.
There are also many low-level tour competitions, youth and disabled badminton competitions scheduled to be held from May to July.
Affected by the epidemic, the World Badminton Federation has previously announced that it will suspend a number of events from March to April and postpone the Tom Cup and Uber Cup badminton team competition originally scheduled to be held in Aarhus, Denmark on May 16-24.
After the Tokyo Olympic Games were confirmed to be postponed, the World Badminton Federation announced at the end of last month that it would “freeze” the world ranking, and said it would start the evaluation process to confirm how the Olympic qualification system would be affected.