HSBC Race To Guangzhou – Women’s Singles
With just nine ranking tournaments remaining in the HSBC Race To Guangzhou 2019, we look at the women’s singles contenders for the Top 8 players to qualify for the season-ending HSBC BWF World Tour Finals in December.
· Lloyd Green
Such is the standard of badminton being played in women’s singles at the moment, the competition for the Top 8 places is set to go down to the wire.
With world champion Pusarla V. Sindhu (currently ranked 14th) guaranteed of a place courtesy of her triumph in Basel and the top five in Ratchanok Intanon, Chen Yu Fei, Akane Yamaguchi, Tai Tzu Ying, and Nozomi Okuhara all well clear of their nearest rivals, only two places seemingly remain.
They currently belong to He Bing Jiao of China and Korea’s Sung Ji Hyun, but there are six other players all within 7,000 points of the pair – Beiwen Zhang, Sayaka Takahashi, Fitriani Fitriani, Michelle Li and Nitchaon Jindapol – ready to lay down the challenge.