The chances of several Indian badminton players hoping to qualify for this year’s Olympics Games in Tokyo are now dealt with a blow as Malaysia Open Super 750 tournament has been postponed.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) also announced that the tournament would no longer be an Olympic qualification event, and now only June’s Singapore Open Super 500 will be the chance to perform and well to qualify.
Current World Champion PV Sindhu, 2019 Wold Championship bronze medalist B Sai Praneeth and men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have already qualified for the Tokyo race.
“Tournament organisers Badminton Association of Malaysia and Badminton World Federation have jointly agreed to postpone the Malaysia Open 2021, scheduled for 25-30 May 2021,” said the BWF in a statement on Friday.
“The Malaysia Open 2021 is a Super 750 event on the BWF World Tour and was originally scheduled as an Olympic qualifying tournament. BWF can confirm the rescheduled tournament will no longer take place in the Olympic qualifying window. New tournament dates will be confirmed at a later date,” it said.
The Singapore Open is all set to held from June 1 to 6 while Olympic qualification period ends on June 15.
