st Asian Senior Women’s Championships.
The top-tier tournament is scheduled Aug. 29 to Sept. 5 with the main venue at the Angeles University Foundation Sports and Cultural Center in Angeles City, Pampanga and a possible secondary venue in Subic.
This will mark as the third time that the country will host the said event following previous hosting in 1997 and 2017.
Jiangmen, China was supposed to host the event but pulled out for some reason.
As hosts, the PH women’s team earns an automatic slot to the tournament, which is expected to have 16 teams.
Eleven teams have already qualified namely 2019 champion Japan and runner-up Thailand, South Korea, China, Kazakhstan, Chinese Taipei, Iran, Indonesia, Australia, India and Hong Kong.