A slew of qualifying tournaments around the world have been cancelled due to virus outbreak. FMTNews BWF Olympic
Saina Nehwal is 22nd in women’s qualification race, only top 16 qualify for Tokyo 2020.
The German Open, an Olympic qualifier which was to be held in Muelheim an der Ruhr from March 3-8, has been cancelled.The China Masters and Polish Open have also been postponed and dropped from the Olympics qualifying process. The Badminton World Federation said on Friday it will not extend the qualification period to add more ranking events in the leadup to the Olympics as it will affect different players “either positively or negatively”.
“We all had seven events starting from Spain Masters until the Singapore Open and few have the Asian Champs too,” Kashyap tweeted.
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