On April 5, 2022, Beijing time, the South Korean Open Badminton Championships kicked off, before the game, the BWF was hit hard, and there was a frenzy of withdrawal from each individual event, and the national badminton collectively withdrew from the men's and women's doubles competitions. Coupled with the withdrawal of foreign players, a total of 11 pairs of women's doubles players gave up the game. Host South Korea sent five pairs of women's doubles pairs to make up the number, but there was still a particularly embarrassing record, with only 10 pairs of women's doubles participating in the competition.
The Korea Open Badminton Championships belong to the BWF Super 500 event, which is relatively high in level, and the prize money and points are also very rich. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, especially in South Korea, the situation has been deteriorating, and many players have temporarily withdrawn from the competition, and such a high-level event has suffered a withdrawal frenzy.
Before the game, the men's singles returned 11 people, the women's singles returned 5 people, the men's doubles returned 9 pairs, the women's doubles returned 11 pairs, and the mixed doubles returned 7 pairs, in this case, the signing form has undergone a huge change and can only be rearranged. Many fans said that in this case, what is the significance of holding this game? Moreover, the risk of participating in the competition is too great.
The most embarrassing thing is the women's doubles, in the end, only 10 pairs of combinations participated in the women's doubles competition, including the host South Korea team's 5 pairs of women's doubles, the South Korean team sent young players to count, still set a very embarrassing record, which is the BWF Super 500 event, the women's doubles competition with the smallest number of participants.
Guoyu gave up the men's doubles and women's doubles competitions and only participated in the men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles competitions. In the men's singles arena, Weng Hongyang played against South Korea's Heo Youxi and Lee Shih-fung against Siberman. In the women's singles field, Chen Yufei's first round of matches has ended, and she swept 21-12, 21-14. In addition, Wang Zhiyi played against Ge Tong and Han Yue against Ban Soda. Mixed doubles, Ou Xuanyi / Huang Yaqiong first-round bye.
Regardless of the results of this station, I hope that the national badminton players will remain healthy, after all, it is indeed very risky to participate in South Korea at this time.
In addition, the first match day also broke out a big cold, the men's singles top seed Gintin lost to Cralbout 16-21, 13-21, suffering a round of travel. Recently, The hot-spotted Lakshya defeated host player Choi Ji-hoon 2-1 to advance to the next round.