China will host its first worldwide badminton match in December after 2019, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) mentioned on Thursday after a two-year disruption resulting from COVID.
The BWF mentioned the highest eight gamers and pairs in every class could be awarded $1.5 million in prizes, the most important ever occasion, on the finish of the season’s World Tour Finals in Guangzhou from December 14 to 18.
BWF Secretary General Thomas Lund mentioned the ultimate was one of many physique’s most fun tournaments and thanked the Chinese authorities for extending the invitation.
“Unfortunately, it was not possible to proceed with the plan to hold two tournaments in Changzhou and Fuzhou,” he added with out additional clarification.
November’s Hong Kong Open had already been canceled for the third straight 12 months as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and sophisticated quarantine measures.
The World Tour finals had been moved to 2020 and 2021 resulting from Chinese COVID restrictions, with China considerably tightening its COVID-19 insurance policies this 12 months to forestall the unfold of the extremely permeable Omicron variant.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
