On April 5, the 2022 BWF Tour Super 500 Korea Open officially kicked off in Suncheon, South Korea. Shortly before the start of the tournament, the tournament side encountered a large-scale wave of withdrawals, and many seeded players withdrew, including the Chinese badminton team, which was originally planned to be the majority of the main players, but also made temporary adjustments, only sending Chen Yufei, Wang Zhiyi, Han Yue, Li Shifeng, Ou Hongyang, Huang Yaqiong, Ou Xuanyi and other 7 people to participate. In addition, due to the large-scale withdrawal, only 10 pairs of women's doubles competitions were left, creating a record low.
Over the past March, the BWF Tour has experienced four European races, including one Super 1000 All England Open, two Super 300 German Open and Swiss Open, and one 100 Orleans Masters in France. For most of the pros, they signed up for the first three races and focused on the All England Open. Guo Yu is the main force to participate, and has achieved good results in the german open debut in the new season, entering 3 finals and achieving 2 gold and 3 silver results, which has played a good training effect. But at the All England Championship, there were no small ups and downs, and in the end, only two runners-ups were won.
Perhaps because the epidemic prevention measures of the All England Championship are loose, resulting in a large area of physical condition of many participating team members, so before the Swiss Open held next, there was also a withdrawal situation, and the Chinese badminton team directly withdrew from the competition, and many team members could only be isolated and trained in Switzerland. In April, South Korea will start two tournaments, including the Korean Open of super 500 and the Korean Masters of super 300, which is a rare opportunity to practice in place before the Yuyu Cup in May, so sign up early as planned.
However, because of the situation encountered in the European arena, so that the national feathers had to temporarily adjust the plan, the Korean Open also made contingency measures, the men's singles Lu Guangzu, Zhao Junpeng, the women's singles He Bingjiao, Zhang Yiman, all the main players of the men's doubles and women's doubles, as well as the mixed doubles Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping, Zheng Siwei / Zhang Shuxian and others have all chosen to retire, leaving only Chen Yufei and Huang Yaqiong to lead a group of young players to play. Due to the collective withdrawal of men's doubles and women's doubles, no one in the national feathers played in these two individual events.
According to the latest signing table of the official event, there has been a large-scale decline tide in each individual event of the entire Korean Open, including 11 men's singles, 5 women's singles, 9 pairs in men's doubles, 11 pairs in women's doubles, and 7 pairs in mixed doubles. In particular, the women's doubles has withdrawn too much, resulting in too late to make up, only 10 pairs are left, of which south Korea accounts for half of the 5 pairs, which also created a record for the lowest number of participants in the history of the badminton federation tour at this level, so some fans said that it is better to cancel this single event directly, and the final championship gold content is certainly not high.