Kuala Lumpur: The Badminton World Federation (BWF) stated on Monday that the Korea Open women’s doubles and mixed doubles draws have to be redone after many players were tested positive for COVID-19 and had to withdraw from the BWF World Tour Super 500 event.
Below is the statement from BWF:
“The women’s doubles and mixed doubles events at the Korea Open Badminton Championships 2022 have been redrawn.
A number of withdrawals in both events left each draw severely imbalanced, with BWF and the tournament referee agreeing to conduct redraws.
Updated Draws
Women’s Doubles
Mixed Doubles
Member Associations withdrew their players and pairs citing COVID-19, travel, and injury-related reasons. Both events did not have reserves to be promoted.
Competition commences tomorrow at 10am local time. Click here for the Order of Play.
In the new draw, there will be no second round for the women’s doubles event. Malaysia’s Vivian Hoo/Lim Chiew Sien will play Benyapa Aimsaard/Nuntakarn Aimsaard in the first round and the winners will advance straight to the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, all three Malaysian mixed doubles pairs received a first-round bye in the new draw, as Ong Yew Sin/Goh Liu Ying will start their second-round battle against No. 1 seeds Seo Seungjae/Chae Yujung of Korea.
The mixed doubles No. 2 seeds Tan Kian Meng/Lai Pei Jing were drawn to face Na Sung Seung/Kim Min Ji of Korea while No. 3 seeds Goh Soon Huat/Shevon Jemie Lai will play the winners between Misha Zilberman/Svetlana Zilberman of Israel or Hiroki Midorikawa/Natsu Saito of Japan in the second round.
