CANADA OPEN 2010 – Not one World Champ, but two!

By
Don Hearn
– June 5, 2010Posted in: news
Not one, but two former badminton World Champions will be making the trip to Richmond, British Columbia next month for the inaugural Yonex Canada Open Grand Prix.  China’s Zhu Lin, […]
Not one, but two former badminton World Champions will be making the trip to Richmond, British Columbia next month for the inaugural Yonex .  China’s Zhu Lin, who won the world title in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, added her name to the still growing list of competitors late this week.

While organizers may have been more or less expecting Taufik Hidayat to return to the North American side of the Pacific for a third time in five years – after the 2005 Worlds in Anaheim and a trip last year that included the U.S. Open as well as an exhibition event in Richmond – the addition of Zhu came as a surprise.  The 25-year-old shuttler won the Badminton Asia Championships in Korea last April but followed this up with four consecutive early-round losses to younger team-mates and she has not competed internationally since the Japan Open last fall.

Online registration for the event is still only in the beginning stages and it remains to be seen what kind of competition Zhu and Taufik will face for the singles titles in Canada.

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Don Hearn is an Editor and Correspondent who hails from a badminton-loving town in rural Canada. He joined the Badzine team in 2006 to provide coverage of the Korean badminton scene and is committed to helping Badzine to promote badminton to the place it deserves as a global sport. Contact him at: don @ badzine.net