Badminton-Singapore Open cancelled due to COVID-19


FILE PHOTO: Singapore Open 2016 - Women's Singles Round of 16 - Singapore 14/4/16. Sun Yu of China plays against Nozomi Okuhara of Japan. REUTERS/Edgar Su

(Reuters) - The Singapore Open, scheduled for June 1-6, has been cancelled due to travel complications amid the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said on Wednesday.

The Super 500 event on the HSBC BWF World Tour was the last tournament where Olympic hopefuls could collect points towards the Race to Tokyo rankings - a programme that decides who qualifies for the Summer Games which begin on July 23.

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