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Carolina Marin is back at the no. 5 spot on the BWF ranking. (Photo: BadmintonPhoto)
Last Asian stop before the tour moves to Europe
Date: 1/29/2018 8:50 AM
Published by : Emma Lollike
After a weekend without European finalists, the HSBC BWF tour moves on to New Delhi for YONEX-SUNRISE DR. AKHILESH DAS GUPTA India Open. 

The first leg of the new HSBC BWF Tour started off in Asia in the beginning of January and the time has come for the third and final stop before it will move on to Europe. It will be the third successive BWF tournament on the tour in Asia, and many Europeans will play the Super 500 tournament this coming week. 

Women’s singles Carolina Marin from Spain is one of them. She will enter the tournament as the second seed and is most likely hungry to reach her first final of the year. The two following weeks she was stopped in the semifinal and the quarterfinal, in respectively Malaysia and Indonesia.

Tuesday will open in New Delhi with qualifying rounds and only one European singles player must go through qualifications. 


Mixed doubles struggle to find their game
The BWF tournaments have not seen a European entry in the final rounds of mixed doubles since the end of last year. The new Danish duo of Christinna Pedersen and Mathias Christiansen delivered a semifinal and two final entries successively in 2017 and have yet to succeed from the second round in 2018.

Another Danish mixed that has been struggling to achieve better results is Niclas Nøhr and Sara Thygesen. Close defeats in the first rounds have marked their beginning of 2018, and they are hoping to do better in New Delhi this week:

- We haven’t been able to get the outcome that we want out of these matches, and we have struggled a bit to find the way to play in the very last of each game. Hopefully we can do better in India, and get some better results, Niclas Nøhr posted on his Instagram.


Men’s singles power
- My ankle is still causing me problems and unfortunately I won’t be able to participate in India Open next week. I love playing in India, so I’m of course really disappointed not being able to play. I will be looking forward to come back next year; This was the message from Viktor Axelsen’s Instagram this Sunday.

India Open will evidently be without the world number one, but his Danish compatriots has showed promising form these past weeks. Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus has taken 2018 by storm and reached the semifinal in Malaysia and the quarterfinal last week in Indonesia.

Rajiv Ouspeh from England, Misha Zilberman from Israel, Vladimir Malkov from Russia and the other Danish players Anders Antonsen, Rasmus Gemke and Emil Holst play their first round on Wednesday, while Amalie Hertz is the only European that will play the qualifying rounds on Tuesday.

Find the order of play for Day 1 of YONEX-SUNRISE DR. AKHILESH DAS GUPTA India Open on tournamentsoftware.com

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