Tai Regains Pole Position – HSBC BWF World Tour Update
Following her second title of 2018 from three finals, Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying returned to the top of the HSBC Race to Guangzhou rankings last week.
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The Chinese Taipei superstar was runner-up at the Perodua Malaysia Masters before winning the Daihatsu Indonesia Masters later in January and the Yonex All England Open in March, giving her 29,000 points, putting her 4000 points ahead of Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon, who beat her to the Malaysia crown earlier in the year.
Intanon also made the semi-finals of the Indonesia Masters and the Yonex-Sunrise Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta India Open.
Her Thai compatriot Nitchaon Jindapol profited from her early-season victory on home soil at the Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters. Jindapol also had a good run at the Yonex German Open in March, reaching the semi-finals. With 23,900 points, she is in third spot, just ahead of Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi (23,620 points) who has continued from where she left off in 2017.