Verma Needs Title Win to Qualify
India’s Sameer Verma has his task cut out at the ongoing Syed Modi International Badminton Championships – he has to win the title to qualify for the year-ending HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2018.
· DEV SUKUMAR
Verma has already won two matches; there are three more to go. He will hope that playing in front of his home crowd will give him the adrenalin required to pull off the feat.
If Verma does win the Syed Modi Championships, he will displace Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto at No.8 in the HSBC Race to Guangzhou Rankings.
The seven players ahead of Nishimoto, who are in no threat of losing out, are: Chou Tien Chen (Chinese Taipei), Kento Momota (Japan), Tommy Sugiarto (Indonesia), Shi Yuqi (China), Son Wan Ho (Korea), Kantaphon Wangcharoen (Thailand), and Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (Indonesia).