The draw has been revealed, check out who faces who at the Badminton BWF World Championships 2023 along with the results and schedule
Badminton’s 2023 BWF World Championships will begin on August 21 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and feature a thrilling first-round matchup thanks to the draw.
BWF World Championships badminton 2023 draw results, schedule and date
The 28th edition of the Worlds, scheduled to be played between August 21-27 in Copenhagen and will have over 375 shuttlers from 55 countries competing in five different categories – menโs singles, womenโs singles, menโs doubles, womenโs doubles and mixed doubles.
The highly anticipated BWF World Championships 2023 draw was slated to take place at the BWF headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, today, August 10. The draw included 16 Indian players, with HS Prannoy, PV Sindhu, and Satwik-Chirag leading the way.
Lee Zii Jia of Malaysia, the former world number two, has been paired against fifth seed Jonatan Christie of Indonesia in the tournament’s first round matches. Lee Zii Jia was unable to be seeded in men’s singles due to his position of 17th in the world rankings as of 1 August 2023.
Zii Jia, who rose to 13th in the world about a week too late after reaching the semifinals at the Australian Open last week, will now play Christie for the eighth time in their careers. The head-to-head record between the two is 4-3 in favour of his Indonesian opponent.
The top seed in the men’s division and the current world and Olympic champion, Viktor Axelsen, will begin his campaign against Nhat Nguyen of Ireland in front of the Danish audience.
While Anthony Ginting, the second seed from Indonesia, will play Ukrainian Danylo Bosniuk, Loh Kean Yew, the 2021 world champion from Singapore, is placed seventh and will play Pablo Albian of Spain.
Only the men’s singles tournament will have 64 players or pairs at Copenhagen; the other four events will each feature 48 competitors.
As a result, the top seed in the women’s singles competition, Chen Yufei of the People’s Republic of China, An Seyoung of the Republic of Korea, and Yamaguchi Akane of Japan, the current champion, all earn byes to the second round along with their fellow seeds.
In the second round, An will face either Vivien Sandorhazi of Hungary or Goh Jin Wei of Malaysia, while Yamaguchi will take on either Tiffany Ho of Australia or Neslihan Yigit of Turkey. Chen will face either Malaysia’s Kisona Selvaduray or Chinese Taipei’s Pai Yu-po in the second round.