After a successful first edition in February this year, the Badminton Asia Championships is set to make a comeback in Dubai from 25 – 30 April at the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall, Al Nasr Club, where most of Asia’s and the world’s best badminton players will lock horns to clinch Asia’s top badminton title.
Almost 300 badminton players from 28 participating nations are getting ready to compete in the prestigious KhiladiX.com Dubai 2023 Badminton Asia Championships Powered by Floki.
The championships will have five events featuring men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles. There will be a main draw and qualifying draw in each of these categories. This tournament is graded based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Super 1000 event.
The continental championships will be contested by top teams like China, Korea, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei etc. with some of the world’s top badminton players including Olympic medallists leading their respective teams.
Hosted under the patronage of UAE cabinet member and Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence Sheikh Nahyan bin Mabarak Al Nahyan, the championship has
sports news platform KhiladiX.com as title sponsor. The event is powered by “people’s cryptocurrency” Floki and has Middle East-focused luxury real estate developer Sobha Realty as platinum sponsor.
Organized by Badminton Asia and UAE Badminton Federation, the championships are supported by Dubai-based sports management consultancy Beyond Boundaries.
Badminton Asia secretary general Moosa Nashid said, “Badminton is one of the most popular sports in the world, and we could feel the impact it had created in this region when we hosted the event last time in February. Our association with the local authorities, organizers and partners has been wonderful and we cannot wait for this big event to begin. We will have many interesting matches and look forward to welcoming a bigger crowd this time.”
Team India will be led by two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, Prannoy HS, Kidambi Srikanth, Saina Nehwal, Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj, Chirag Shetty, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, among others. The championships will see a total of seven Indian singles players and 12 doubles pairs from the country competing.
