Qualification period for Tokyo 2020 badminton tournaments extended Saturday, 20 February 2021
The qualification period for the badminton tournaments at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been extended from April 25 to June 15.
The change comes after the Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced alterations to the World Tour tournament calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur was postponed from April 6 to 11 to May 25 to 30, while the Malaysia Masters has been delayed until further notice.
The Singapore Open has been rescheduled to June 1 to 6.
Both the Badminton Association of Malaysia and Singapore Badminton Association cited ongoing COVID-19 complications and wished for the tournaments to be postponed.
Badminton: Tokyo Olympics qualification period extended till June after three tournaments postponed
The development came after the BWF decided to postpone two tournaments in Malaysia and Singapore Open from their earlier scheduled dates. Representational image | AFP
The Tokyo Olympics qualification period for badminton was on Friday extended by nearly two months to June 15 after the postponement of three important tournaments due to Covid-19 related restrictions.
The qualification period was earlier to end on April 25.
“The Olympic Qualifying period for the Race to Tokyo will now close on 15 June 2021, with the last tournament counting for qualification being the Singapore Open 2021,” the BWF said in a statement.
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SINGAPORE: Three of the four badminton players who had tested positive for COVID-19 have been cleared to return to competition at the Thailand Open, said the Badminton World Federation (BWF) in a press release on Tuesday (Jan 12).
The players - India s Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy as well as Germany s Jones Ralfy Jansen, had initially tested positive for COVID-19 during the third round of mandatory testing for the players on Monday, the sport s governing body had said. BWF was informed on Tuesday morning, hours before the start of the tournament.