The All England Open badminton championship continues to be the most coveted trophy for the Indian shuttlers since the legendary Prakash P...
The All England Open badminton championship continues to be the most coveted trophy for the Indian shuttlers since the legendary Prakash Padukone claimed the title in 1980. Since then, the title has come home just once more and every new edition brings hope of another success at Arena Birmingham.
But the primary focus of 2020’s first Super 1000 event that begins on Wednesday for most of the Indian squad members would be to register those valuable wins in the preliminary rounds; try and go as deep as possible in the draw before evening thinking of the podium.
The likes of Saina Nehwal, Kidambi Srikanth, P Kashyap and Lakshya Sen are still chasing an Olympic qualification spot and with the $1,100,000 prize money meet offering the highest points bracket on the BWF World Tour, every victory should take them closer to their aim of breaking into the top-16 in the Race to Tokyo rankings before the end of the qualification period.
And the importance of these points have only increased due to the uncertainty over many other qualification tournaments following the coronavirus outbreak across the globe. The German Open Super 300 event has been cancelled and there is still no clarity on how many events will be affected in the...
