China will host its first worldwide badminton match since 2019 in December, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) mentioned on Thursday, after two years of disruptions attributable to COVID.
The season-ending World Tour Finals, scheduled for Guangzhou from Dec. 14-18, will characteristic the highest eight gamers and pairs in every class with a prize pool of $1.5 million, the largest the occasion has ever supplied, the BWF mentioned.
BWF Secretary Basic Thomas Lund mentioned the finals had been one of many physique’s most profitable tournaments and thanked the Chinese language authorities for extending the invitation.
“Sadly, it was not attainable to maneuver ahead with plans to stage the 2 tournaments in Changzhou and Fuzhou,” he added, with out additional clarification.
November’s Hong Kong Open had already been cancelled for the third straight yr because of the COVID-19 pandemic and sophisticated quarantine measures.
The World Tour Finals had been relocated in 2020 and 2021 on account of Chinese language COVID restrictions
China considerably tightened its COVID-19 insurance policies this yr to include the unfold of the extremely transmissible Omicron variant.
The season-ending World Tour Finals, scheduled for Guangzhou from Dec. 14-18, will characteristic the highest eight gamers and pairs in every class with a prize pool of $1.5 million, the largest the occasion has ever supplied, the BWF mentioned.
BWF Secretary Basic Thomas Lund mentioned the finals had been one of many physique’s most profitable tournaments and thanked the Chinese language authorities for extending the invitation.
“Sadly, it was not attainable to maneuver ahead with plans to stage the 2 tournaments in Changzhou and Fuzhou,” he added, with out additional clarification.
November’s Hong Kong Open had already been cancelled for the third straight yr because of the COVID-19 pandemic and sophisticated quarantine measures.
The World Tour Finals had been relocated in 2020 and 2021 on account of Chinese language COVID restrictions
China considerably tightened its COVID-19 insurance policies this yr to include the unfold of the extremely transmissible Omicron variant.
