Early Season Boost for Danes – HSBC BWF World Tour Update
The first quarter of the year couldn’t have gone any better for Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl.
· DEV SUKUMAR
With two title victories and two semi-final finishes, the Danes (featured image) are flying high – and leading the HSBC Race to Guangzhou rankings in Women’s Doubles.
Pedersen and Rytter Juhl won the Perodua Malaysia Masters, were semi-finalists at the Daihatsu Indonesia Masters and the Yonex-Sunrise Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta India Open, before achieving one of their career’s most memorable trophies – the long-awaited Yonex All England Open crown. The Danes have accumulated 34,040 points – nearly 4000 points clear of the second-placed Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai of Thailand.
The Thais have played five of the seven HSBC BWF World Tour events so far this season. They started the year on a perfect note, winning the Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters at home; were quarter-finalists in Indonesia; runners-up in India, before once again making the quarter-finals in the Yonex German Open and the All England.