Hong Kong Open: Former Winner Okuhara Replaces Pusarla
Nozomi Okuhara, women’s singles champion in 2018, will take Pusarla V. Sindhu’s place in the VICTOR Hong Kong Open 2023 main draw.
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Her first-round opponent will be Indonesian world No.33 Putri Kusuma Wardani.
This marks Okuhara’s return to a Super 500 event after January’s Indonesia Masters, where she lost her opening round match in three games to He Bing Jiao.
In 2018, Okuhara defeated Ratchanok Intanon 21-19 24 22 in the final to win her only Hong Kong Open title.
- Nozomi Okuhara
- Pusarla V. Sindhu
- Putri Kusuma Wardani
- He Bing Jiao
- Ratchanok Intanon
- Lee Chia Hao
- Kidambi Srikanth
- Kantaphon Wangcharoen
- Kodai Naraoka
- Misha Zilberman
- Kunlavut Vitidsarn
- Aakarshi Kashyap
- Michelle Li
- Low Hang Yee
- Ng Eng Cheong
- Akira Koga
- Taichi Saito
- Junaidi Arif
- Yap Roy King
- He Ji Ting
- Zhou Hao Dong
- Christian Bernardo
- Alvin Morada
- Ren Xiang Yu
- Tan Qiang
- Joshua Magee
- Paul Reynolds
- Takuro Hoki
- Yugo Kobayashi
- Chan Peng Soon
- Cheah Yee See
- Yuta Watanabe
- Arisa Igarashi
- Adnan Maulana
- Nita Violina Marwah
- Mathias Thyrri
- Amalie Magelund