Coronavirus: Badminton’s China, Japan Opens Cancelled | Badminton Information

Badminton’s prestigious China and Japan Opens have been cancelled Wednesday by the Badminton World Federation because it introduced that 4 September tournaments in Asia wouldn’t be performed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Taipei Open from September 1-6, the Korea Open (Sept Eight-13), the China Open (Sept 15-20) and the Japan Open (Sept 22-27) have been all axed. “We’re deeply dissatisfied to should cancel tournaments, however really feel that the wellbeing of everybody concerned is most vital presently,” BWF Secretary Basic Thomas Lund stated in an announcement.

“We share the frustration of many around the globe who have been trying ahead to the return of badminton and recognize the entire continued help from our followers and companions as we proceed to navigate the rest of the 2020 season,” he added.

The pandemic has upended sports activities occasions around the globe, from the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to the cancellation of Wimbledon.

On Tuesday, the WTA Pan Pacific Open in Japan, one in every of Asia’s high tennis tournaments, was cancelled for the primary time.

Final week, the boys’s ATP Tour and ladies’s WTA Tour introduced all tennis tournaments in China for the remainder of the yr had been cancelled, together with the Shanghai Masters and WTA Finals in Shenzhen.

Badminton is massively well-liked throughout Asia and the China Open is one in every of solely two top-ranked World Tremendous Tour 1000 sequence tournaments on the calendar whereas the Japan Open is likely one of the 5 annual World Tour Tremendous 750 occasions.

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In a standard yr devoid of the journey restrictions attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, each would have attracted fields containing all of the world’s top-ranked women and men gamers.

Later occasions in Asia such because the Tremendous 500 Hong Kong Open in November and December’s World Tour finals in China stay listed on the calendar, however the BWF cautioned determination on future occasions “can be made sooner or later.”