TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2022 Draw
Pan Am Players from Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and United States will compete at the BWF World Championships 2022 which will be held in Tokyo, Japan.
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The Live Draw Ceremony for the TotalEnergies BWF World Championships 2022 was conducted today at BWF Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
The championships run from 22-28 August at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, with 363 players from 47 Member Associations entered.
Draw Results
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The top seeds and defending champions fared relative well in their respective draws.
- Men’s singles world No.1 Viktor Axelsen of Denmark is on a 31-match winning streak this season. He potentially faces last week’s Commonwealth Games semifinalist, Jason Teh of Singapore, in the second round.
- Two-time mixed doubles world champions, China’s Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong, arrive in Tokyo having won six straight tournaments. They are in the same half of the draw as compatriots and Olympic Games conquerors Wang Yi Lyu/Huang Dong Ping.
- After surprisingly missing out on a medal at her home Olympics last year, 2021 women’s singles world champion Akane Yamaguchi seeks redemption on home soil. The likes of Carolina Marin (Spain), He Bing Jiao (China), An Se Young (Korea), and recent Commonwealth Games champion Pusarla V. Sindhu (India) will try and block her path to the final.
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Tournament History
It is perhaps a historical oddity that Japan has never hosted the BWF World Championships until now, considering its badminton tradition and experience of hosting other major events.
Japan has an intriguing relationship with the World Championships. In the decade leading up to the inaugural event in Malmo, Sweden, Japan was the dominant power in the women’s events before experiencing a prolonged drought.
After the inaugural year, when Etsuko Toganoo/Emiko Ueno won the women’s doubles title, it would be 40 years before Nozomi Okuhara emerged on top again for Japan.