Badminton players busy with int’l competitions
(VOV) -Vietnam will compete at the world team championships (Sudirman Cup) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from May 19-26.
They are in group 3B together with Switzerland, Australia, Lithuania and Kazakhstan.
Prior to the event, three players of Hanoi namely Do Tuan Duc, Pham Hong Nam and Le Thu Huyen, will take part in the Slovenian Badminton Open from May 9-12, competing in four events, including men’s singles and doubles, women’s singles and mixed doubles.
In the men’s singles Duc will face Lukas Weissenback of Austria while Nam will play Ralph Bitternauer of Austria, in the first qualifying round of the tournament.
Meanwhile their female teammate Huyen, seeded second, will be exempt from the first round of the women’s singles and is expected to play the winner of the match between Eva Miklic of Slovenia and Martina Repiska of Slovenia in the second round.
In the men’s doubles Duc/Nam will take on hosts Matic Ivancic/Simin Skok in the first qualifying round and in the mixed doubles Huyen/Duc will encounter Cezch duo Janacek/Lucie Cerna in their first match of the final round.