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World badminton federation announces 2021 calendar

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NEW DELHI, Dec 22: The India Open Super 500 will be held from May 11 to 16 and will serve as the last qualification event for the Tokyo Olympics, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed in its new calendar for the upcoming year.
The Olympic Qualifying period for Tokyo will restart next year and the first qualifying tournament will be the Swiss Open from March 2 to 7 followed by German Open from March 9-14. The USD 400,000 India Open will be the last of the 17 events to earn points towards sealing berths for the Tokyo Olympics.
“The qualification period will be extended until Week 19 with the Indian Open 2021 being the last tournament in the qualification period,” the BWF said in a statement.
This year, India Open was originally scheduled in March but postponed to December 8-13 due to COVID-19 pandemic. It was later cancelled altogether.
The new-look BWF calendar also sees a number of tournaments postponed from first and second quarters of the season, and a handful of Grade 2 tournaments cancelled.
The BWF World Rankings will reopen following the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2020 scheduled to start from January 27-31 and the calculation of the next world rankings list will be announced on February 2. (PTI)

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