The qualification for the finals of the World Tour is determined according to the World Tour ranking of the World Badminton Federation. There are 8 places for each individual event. Each individual champion of this year’s World Championship is automatically shortlisted.
Xinhua News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, December 2 (reporter Lin Hao, Yu Wei) the World Badminton Federation (BWF) announced on the 2nd the list of the finals of the BWF World Tour to be held in Guangzhou, the Chinese team did not get full participation in the men’s singles and man pair.
The qualification for the finals of the World Tour is determined according to the ranking of the world tour of the World Badminton Federation. There are 8 places for each individual event, and each individual champion of this year’s World Championship is automatically shortlisted. Athletes affiliated to each association can only get up to two places in each individual item.
In terms of men’s singles, taotian xiandou, the world’s number one Japanese player, was shortlisted as the number one in the world tour and the champion of the world championship. Chinese player Xiaolong qualified for the competition as the fourth in the world tour. Shi Yuqi, who defeated taotian to win the championship in the finals last year, was not qualified for the competition due to injury, and veteran Lin Dan was not allowed to participate in the competition.
Chen Yufei, a Chinese women’s singles player, and his teammate He Bingjiao entered the finals together. Indian player Sindu ranked only the 15th in the world tour, but qualified for the World Championship.
In the three doubles projects in China, except for the defending champion Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen, only one pair won the qualification man pair, chen Chenchen/Jia Yifan and Du Hui/Li Yinhui and Zheng thinking, who ranked the top two in the world, Huang Yaqiong and Wang Xiaolu/Huang Dongping also successfully entered the finals.
This year’s World Tour Finals will be held in Guangzhou Tianhe Sports on December 11-15.