On the evening of December 19, the BWF released the draw for the 2024 Malaysia Open Badminton Championships, which is also the original draw, and the main match will be held on January 9, 2024, three weeks before the start of the competition.
The Malaysia Open is the first tournament of the BWF Tour in 2024 and one of the most important tournaments, with the tournament level of Super1000, and according to BWF regulations, the top players in each individual ranking will be required to participate in the competition (top 15 in singles and top 10 in doubles), so the stars are sparkling.
The national feather side sent all the main lineups to play, of course, individual players did not appear in the list when they registered, and some players were dismantled and could only sit on the bench and wait for opportunities.
The tournament will total $1.3 million in prize money, with $91,000 for the singles champion and $96,200 for the doubles winner. Because of the high level of the event, there is no qualifier.
The following are the specific signs for each item.
In the men's singles, Viktor Axelsen, as the top seed, sits in the top half of the bracket and will face Loh Kean Yew in the first round, which is a lot different from the No. 2 seed Kodai Naraoka. The opponents he faced in the first two rounds of the Japanese were relatively low.
In terms of national feathers, Shi Yuqi faced Jemke in the first round, and his opponents in the second round were between Zhou Tiancheng and Toma Popov, both of which have some strength. Lu Guangzu faced Li Zijia in the first round, if he can win, he will also face Ginting, it can be said that it is difficult to play every game, and the probability of meeting Shi Yuqi in the top 8 is probably not large. And Shi Yuqi has a chance to face Ginting in the round of 8 and Axelsen in the semifinals, repeating the scene of the finals.
Li Shifeng and Weng Hongyang are in the bottom half of the bracket and have a chance to meet in the second round, but both opponents in the first round are not weak.
Now that the level of men's singles is getting closer and closer, the state of the players is fluctuating, resulting in many games that cannot be **, who can win in the end, there is a taste of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
In addition, Japan's Kento Momota is temporarily ranked second on the bench and can only hope that other players will retire.
In women's singles, Han Yue and Zhang Yiman are in the upper half. Han Yue faced Indonesia's Vardani in the first round and had little problem winning, and the winner of the second round against Li Wenshan and Yang Jiamin will have a chance to challenge An Xiying if she successfully advances to the top 8. Han Yue's strength is relatively stable, those who are weaker than him are not likely to lose, and those who are stronger than him rarely cause upsets.
Zhang Yiman was less lucky, facing the returning Marin in the first round, but Marin is also not invincible, Zhang Yiman has beaten Marin in the most recent encounter, although it happened in 2022.
Chen Yufei, He Bingjiao, and Wang Zhiyi are in the lower half of the same district. Chen Yufei signed a flat match, facing Aya Ohori, who has won 10 consecutive games in the first round, and the winner between Kim Ga-eun and Intanon in the second round. But Chen Yufei will not meet An Xiying in the finals, and Marin, who lost two games in a row in the finals, is not in the same half of the district, so it can be said that his luck is okay. He Bingjiao and Wang Zhiyi are expected to meet in the second round.
In men's doubles, four pairs of national feathers participated in the main event, and Tan Qiang and Zhou Haodong did not register.
Leung Wai Hang and Wang Chang, as the top seeds, faced Malaysia's young pair Wan Wei Cong Cheng Kai Wen in the first round, and the opponent is very aggressive and needs to be prepared. In fact, Liang Wang played normally, and it was not a big problem to advance to the semifinals, including the double-A combination that the eight into four might encounter. The other semi-finals in the top half of the table are very competitive and it is not yet possible to decide who will win.
Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi and another pair of national feather combination He Jiting Ren Xiangyu were unlucky, they met in the first round, the two pairs played twice, and in the end any combination won, this pair of new partners who split and reorganized, if they want to impact the Paris Olympics, I am afraid that the biggest opponent is none other than Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi.
Youngsters Chen Boyang and Liu Yi will face Li Zhehui and Yang Boxuan in the first round, and if they win, they will face the double champions of the World Championships and the finals in the second round, Kang Min Hyuk and Seo Seung Jae.
The South Korean combination Kim Won-ho will partner Luo Xingsheng to start again, and it is estimated that the Korean coaching staff has been planning for a long time.
In women's doubles, 5 pairs of national feather pairs were shortlisted for the main draw, and the Fanchen combination, as the top seed, faced Li Youlin and Shen Shengzan in the first round.
Liu Shengshu Tan Ning has poor luck in signing, and will face the host pair Chen Kangle Tina in the first round, the pair has a balanced strength and a fierce attack, and this game will be arranged on the No. 1 court if nothing else. Li Yijing and Luo Xu Min face the Dutch pair Gil Sening in the first round, and if both Chinese pairs can make it through the first round, they will play in the second round.
Kazuna Nagahara's eyes are not very serious, and he will continue to play in Malaysia with Mayu Matsumoto, while Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota withdrew from the tournament due to injury before the draw was announced.
Zhang Shuxian Zheng Yu's opponent in the first round was the Thai sister flower pair, and the other Thai pair, Kititharakulba Zongzai, was also unlucky, and the first round against Rahayu Ramadanti is likely to be a tough battle.
Li Wenmei and Liu Xuanxuan faced Xu Jiawen and Lin Qiuxian in the first round, and the outcome depends on the performance.
In Mixed Doubles, the three national pairs will all play as seeded players, and IELTS will face Hong Kong's Lee Chun Hei and Ng Tsz Yau in the first round, and it will not be a problem to advance to the quarterfinals. IELTS has a good chance to meet Kim Won-ho and Jung Na-eun again on the road of 8 into 4, and IELTS has escaped death in the finals, so I am looking forward to this encounter.
Feng Yanzhe and Huang Dongping are also in the upper half of the region, and they have good luck, whether it is Ye Hongwei, Li Jiaxin, or Dechabo Sasili may not be the opponent of the Feng Huang combination, and the two have the opportunity to meet IELTS in the semi-finals.
This time, Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin finally avoided their teammates and would not meet early, but they were unlucky, and there was hope that they would meet Xu Seungjae and Choi Yoo-hyun in the 8-in-4 duel. However, first-round opponents Christian Sen Bol should not be underestimated, and Jiang Wei lost in three games at the Denmark Open in October, and there is a lesson to be learned.
There are still two pairs of national feathers in the substitute list, Cheng Xing's partner Zhang Chi is in the second place on the bench, there is still a glimmer of hope, and the pair of He Jiting and Li Yijing is ranked last (16th), basically hopeless.