The Badminton World Federation 2020 season finals will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from January 27th to 31st. Previously, two consecutive Super 1000 events, the Thailand Open, were held. The draw results for the five individual events of the finals were released at noon today. The suspense of the finals championship between the two traditional strong teams of Yu and Japan has been reduced. Spain's Olympic champion Marin and Denmark's world champion Axelsen are expected to win the finals championship again after winning two consecutive championships back to back. .
The national feather team decided to withdraw from the three tournaments held in Bangkok, Thailand, including the finals, due to health and safety considerations due to the recurrence of the epidemic; the Japanese team decided to withdraw from the men’s singles due to the nucleic acid test at the airport upon departure. World No. 1 Kento Momota tested positive, and the Japanese team withdrew collectively. In the absence of national badminton and Japan participating, in the two Super 1000 Thailand Open events, except for the women's doubles, players won ten consecutive championships in the remaining four individual events to achieve back-to-back championships. Denmark's Axelsen won the men's singles doubles. In the women's singles, Spain's Marin defeated top seed Tai Tzu Ying to win two consecutive championships. In the men's doubles, Chinese Taipei's Li Yang/Wang Qilin won the two championships. In the mixed doubles, Thailand's Dechapol/Sapsiree won back-to-back titles. The first round of women's doubles championship was won by the Indonesian combination Polly /Rahayu, and the second round championship was won by the Korean combination Kim So Young /Kong Hee Yong.
The finals will start on January 27. The results of each individual group are released. In the women's singles, Marin and Tai Tzu Ying are in the A and B groups respectively. In the same group with Marin are South Korea's An Xiying, Canada's Li Wenshan and Russia's Kosetskaya. The biggest highlight of this group is that the 18-year-old genius girl An Xiying once again challenged Marin. After two previous In the Thailand Open, An Xiying met Marin in the women's singles semi-finals. Both times, she was defeated in two games and missed the final. This time in the group stage, An Xiying will serve Marin again. The competition in the other group is fierce. In addition to Tai Tzu Ying, there are also two world championship champions Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand and Pusarla Sindhu of India, as well as Thai rookie Li Meili. The favorite to win the women's singles championship is naturally Marin. With Marin's current state, it is indeed difficult to defeat her. The defending champion of women's singles is Chen Yufei of Guoyu. She missed the opportunity to participate this year.
In the men's singles, Denmark's Viktor Axelsen is in Group A with Chinese Taipei's Zhou Tiancheng, Malaysia's Lee Zii Jia and Indonesia's Jin Ting . Group B is Denmark's Antonsen , Wang Ziwei in Taipei, China, Srikanth in India and Ng Ka-lang in Hong Kong, China. Axelsen has won two consecutive championships and is currently in good form. Other opponents may not be able to compete with him in their current form. Whoever makes it out of the group depends on their on-the-spot performance. The defending men's singles champion is Japan's Kento Momota, who also missed the opportunity to participate. Ahsan/Setiawan in men's doubles are the only defending champions to play, but their current state is average and it will be difficult to defend their title.
