Gideon/Sukamuljo Bow Out With Injury
Men’s Doubles defending champions Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo and Women’s Singles contender Chen Yufei exited the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2018 with injuries.
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While Gideon complained of a neck injury that forced the Indonesians to withdraw before their last group match today, Chen Yufei retired in her group match against Nozomi Okuhara with a right ankle injury.
According to General Competition Regulation 16.2.5, if illness or injury prevents a player/pair from completing all the group matches, all the results of that player/pair in the group will be deleted. Retiring during a match is considered to be not completing all group matches.
Thus, Men’s Doubles Group A had three pairs left in contention – Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen; Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (Denmark) and Han Chengkai/Zhou Haodong (China).