After a one-month break, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Tour is set to restart on March 7 with the German Open, which is a Super 300 event and the fifth tournament in the BWF Tour this year.
After a one-month break, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Tour is set to restart on March 7 with the German Open, which is a Super 300 event and the fifth tournament in the BWF Tour this year. The tournament will begin on Tuesday, March 7 2023 in Mulheim and the final will be played on March 12. Top shuttlers including women’s world no. 1 Akane Yamaguchi will be competing in the event. Among the Indian players, Lakshya Sen is the only seeded shuttler. Alongside Sen, former world no. 1 Kidambi Srikanth and the recently crowned national champion Mithun Manjunath, will be shouldering Indian hopes in the men’s singles.
#GermanOpen2023 is just round the corner! 🤩
7-12 March 2⃣0⃣2⃣3⃣ | Mulheim 🇩🇪
Who are you looking forward to watching? ✍️👇#HSBCbadminton #BWFWorldTour @HSBC_Sport pic.twitter.com/1WqCSabKsl
— BWF (@bwfmedia) March 4, 2023
In the opening round Sen will take on Christo Popov of France, while Srikanth will face Lu Guang Zu, and Mithun’s first round opponent will be world no. 8 Loh Kean Yew. Malavika Bansod and veteran Saina Nehwal are the Indian hopes in women’s singles category. Saina is unseeded and will be facing a qualifier in the first round. Saina is likely to meet world no.8 Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand in the second round of the tournament. The mixed doubles duo of B. Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponappa are the only Indian representatives in doubles. They will play Scotland’s Andrew Hall and Julie MacPherson in the first round.
Fixtures |
Lee Zii Jia vs Q3 |
Misha Zilberman vs Anders Antonsen |
Lakshya Sen vs Christo Popov |
Victor Svendsen vs Lee Cheuk Yiu |
Kodai Naraoka vs NG Ka Long Angus |
Rasmus Gemke vs Kidambi Srikanth |
Lu Guang Zu vs Q2 |
Liew Daren vs Kanta Tsuneyama |
Toma Junior Popov vs Brian Yang |
Kento Momota vs Shi Yu Qi |
Kenta Nishimoto vs Cheam June Wei |
Mithun Manjunath vs Loh Kean Yew |
Lin Chun-Yi vs Mark Caljouw |
Q1 vs Zhao Jun Peng |
HansKristian Solberg Vittinghus vs Q4 |
Li Shi Feng vs Kunlavut Vitidsarn |
Fixtures |
Akane Yamaguchi vs Lalinrat Chaiwan |
Lirsty Gilmour vs Zhang Yi Man |
Wang Zhi Yi vs Malavika Bansod |
Aya Ohori vs Yvonne Li |
Chen Yu Fei vs Iris Wang |
Qi Xuefei vs Clara Azurmendi |
Pornpawee Chochuwong vs Q3 |
Lianne Tan vs Goh Jin Wei |
Q2 vs Saina Nehwal |
Wen Chi Hsu vs Ratchanok Intanon |
Saena Kawakami vs Nozomi Okuhara |
Kristin Kuuba vs He Bing Jiao |
Kim Ga Eun vs Q4 |
Supanida Katethong vs Han Yue |
Q1 vs Sung Shuo Yuin |
Riko Gunji vs An Se Young |
Fixtures |
Aaron Chia/ Soh Wooi Yik (Bye) |
Man Wei Chong/ Kai Wun Tee vs Akira Koga/ Taichi Saito |
Mark Lamsfuss/ Marvin Seidel vs Bjarne Geiss/ Jan Colin Voelker |
Daniel Hess/ Patrick Scheiel vs Jeppe Bay/ Lasse Molhede |
Kim Astrup/ Anders Rasmussen vs Keiichiro Matsui/ Yoshinori Takeuchi |
Ade Dwicahyo/ Azmy Qowimuramadhoni vs Kim Gi Jung/ Kim Sa Rang |
Choi Soi Gyu/ Kim Won Ho vs Joshua Magee/ Paul Reynolds |
Rasmus Kjaer/ Frederik Sogaard vs Ruben Jille/ Ties Van der Lecq |
Christopher Grimley/ Matthew Grimley vs Lucas Corvee/ Ronan Labar |
Chang Ko-Chi/ Wang Chi-Lin vs Liang Wei Keng/ Wang Chang |
Alexander Dunn/ Adam Hall vs Tan Kian Meng/ Tan Wee Kiong |
Kang Min Hyuk/ Seo Seung Jae vs Liu Yu Chen/ Ou Xuan Yi |
Dong Adam/ Nyl Yakura vs Lee Jhe-Huei/ Yang Po-Hsuan |
Fang-Chih Lee/ Lee Yang vs Png Yew Sin/ Teo ee Ti |
Ondrej Kral/ Adam Mendrek vs Onnocenzo Santoro/ Raymond Webster |
Christo Popov/ Toma Junior Popov vs Takuro Hoki/ Yugo Kobayashi |
Fixtures |
Nami Matsuyama/ Chiharu Shida vs Kati-Kreet Marran/ Helina Ruutel |
Stine Kuespert/ Emma Moszczynski vs Q2 |
Yuki Fukushima/ Sayaka Hirota vs Mariia Stoliarenko/ Yelyzaveta Zharka |
Rui Hirokami/ Yuna Kato vs Martina Corsini vs Judith Mair |
Tan Pearly/ Thinaah Muralitharan vs Kate Frost/ Moya Ryan |
Catherine Choi/ Josephine Wu vs Julie Macpherson/ Clara Torrance |
Mayu Matsumoto/ Wakana Nagahara vs Q1 |
Annie Xu/ Kerry Xu vs Yeung Nga Ting/ Yeung Pui Lam |
Margot Lambert/ Anne Tran vs Rin Iwanaga/ Kie Nakanishi |
Debora Jille/ Cheryl Seinen/ Gabriela Stoeva/ Stefani Stoeva |
Chloe Birch/ Lauren Smith vs Linda Efler/ Isabel Lohau |
Li Wen Mei/ Lie Xuan Xuan vs Kim So Yeong/ Kong Hee Yong |
Srivedya Gurazada/ Ishika Jaiswal vs Ng Tsz Yau/ Tsang Hiu Yan |
Maiken Fruergaard/ Sara Thygesen vs Baek Ha Na/ Lee So Hee |
Q3 vs Q4 |
Vivian Hoo vs Lim Chiew Sien vs Jeong Na Eun/ Kim Hye Jeong |
Fixtures |
Yuta Watanabe/ Arisa Higashino vs Ko Sung Hyun/ Eom Hye Won |
Misha Zilberman/ Svetlana Zilberman vs Kim Won Ho/ Jeong Na Eun |
Seo Seung Jae/ Chae Yu Jung vs Q4 |
Chen Tang Jie/ Toh Ee Wei vs Hoo Pang Ron/ Teoh Mei Xing |
Tan Kian Meng/ Lai Pei Jing vs Dejan Ferdinansyah/ Gloria Widjaja |
Lee Reginald/ Ng Tsz Yau vs Ty Lindeman/ Josephine Wu |
Robin Tabeling/ Selena Piek vs Tang Chun Man/ Tsu Ying Suet |
Kyohei Yamashita/ Naru Shinoya vs Gregory Mairs/ Jenny Moore |
Praveen Jordan/ Melati Oktavianti vs Q1 |
Q2 vs Feng Yan Zhe/ Huang Dong Pong |
Yang Po-Hsuan/ Hu Ling Fang vs Jones Jansen/ Linda Efler |
Koceila Nammeri/ Tanina Violette Mammeri vs Mark Lamsfuss/ Isabel Lohau |
Q3 vs Hiroki Midorikawa/ Natsu Saito |
Chang Ko-chi/ Lee Chih Chen vs Yuki Kaneko/ Misaki Matsutomo |
Sumeeth Reddy/ Ashwini Ponnappa vs Adam Hall/ Julie Macpherson |
Jesper Toft/ Clara Graversen vs Thom Gicquel/ Delphine Delrue |
The 2023 German Open Badminton Championship will commence on March 07 and end on March 12.
The matches can be watched live on BWF’s official Youtube channel BWFTV.