Sports news ekings news – Several Indonesian badminton players who have been selected will later participate in the 2021 BWF World Tour Finals. The finals will be played from 1 to 5 December at the Bali International Convention Center & Westin Resort, Bali. Indonesia.  It will have several players from several countries.

Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo will represent Indonesia in the men’s doubles sector.   Pramudya Kusumawardana/Yeremia Erich Yoche Yacob Rambitan will also be part of it. Not only that, there is also a representative from the women’s doubles sector, namely by Greysia Polii / Apriyani Rahay.  There is also one representative from the mixed doubles, Praveen Jordan / Melati Daeva Oktavianti.

The BWF World Tour Finals standings have a completely different calculation from the BWF rankings. This is becasue the BWF Tour Finals standings only count points earned in one season. The BWF World Tour Finals is a match that concludes the series of World Tour matches that have been held by BWF in the current year.

Other tournaments

This World Tour tournament also consists of several tournaments with levels of Super 100, Super 300, Super 500, and Super 750, and there is also a Super 1000. It has participants who are ranked in the top eight from each sector and can collect the most points from each tournament held throughout the year.

So, points earned in outside games will not be counted, for example, in Olympics, Asian Games, SEA Games. The same goes for continental championships, International Series, International Challenges, and other competitions.

In addition to the eight badminton players who have collected the most points on the World Tour, the BWF World Tour Finals can also provide wild cards for world champions.  Those who can win an Olympic gold medal to be able to participate in the BWF World Tour Finals.

Marcus/Kevin ranks first in the Race To Bali, also known as the 2021 BWF World Tour Finals, with 49,500 points. This is after he became runner-up in the Indonesia Masters 2021 and also won the Indonesia Open 2021.

Meanwhile, Pramudya/Jeremiah is in sixth place with 31,820 points. Greysia Polii/Apriani Rahayu can qualify for the 2021 BWF World Tour Finals. This is through an achievement path where they can become the defending champions at the Olympics. BWF does provide a special place for the defending champion in the BWF World Tour Finals.

Olympic Qualifications

As long as it doesn’t break with other qualifying regulation points. It is reported that Olympic champions can still qualify for the BWF World Tour Finals. Even though they failed to get into the top eight of the World Tour. In the World Tour rankings alone, they are ranked 13th. It has also been discussed that the achievement as runner-up in the Indonesia Open can also bring them up 12 lines with a total of 22,850 points.

Not only Greysia/Apriyani, but also men’s doubles players from Taiwan, Lee Yang/Wang Chi Lin who were able to take part in the BWF Tour Finals because they were able to win a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In the mixed doubles sector, there is also Praveen Jordan/ Melati Daeva Oktavianti actually, they were ranked only ninth. They were able to enter because the eighth place did not participate in the Indonesia Open and Indonesia Masters 2021 matches.