The season-opening Super Series championships from Jan 12-17 in Seoul marks the return of the world No. 1 to competition after pulling out of the Laos SEA Games last month because of a knee injury.
For Lin Dan, he will make his first appearance for the year in the Malaysian Open, which will be held the week after the Korean Open.
However, China will still have a strong singles cast in the Korean Open with Chen Jin, Bao Chunlai and Chen Long in the fray.
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Chong Wei is in the same half of the draw as third seed Chen Jin and he starts his campaign in Seoul against Andrew Smith of England. In the same quarter are Marc Zwiebler of Germany and Boonsak Ponsana of Thailand.
The other half of the draw has Chunlai, Chen Long, South Korean Park Sung-hwan and top Dane Peter-Gade Christensen.
It was Christensen who denied Chong Wei his first Korean Open title last year.
Chong Wei bagged a total of six titles last year, including a successful defence of the Super Series Masters Finals in Johor Baru last month and singles chief coach Rashid Sidek hopes the shuttler can continue from where he left off.
“It has not been easy for any player to achieve what he did last year even though he missed the major titles, including the world championship,” he said.
“Even in the absence of Lin Dan, the pressure is still on him as everyone is out to beat the world No. 1. Chong Wei had ample time to recover and should be ready for the challenges.”
Rashid also hoped that the back-up shuttlers would be able to make the most of the opportunities given to them.
Besides Chong Wei, Kuan Beng Hong and Chong Wei Feng are also in the main draw but they are staring at early exits.
Wei Feng has a first-round match against Christensen while Beng Hong meets a qualifier, who is likely to be Liew Daren, and has Sung-hwan in his path in the second round.
Tan Chun Seang and Mohd Arif Abdul Latif are likely to slug it out for a place in the main draw.
Super Series Masters Finals winner Wong Mew Choo is the only Malaysian in the women’s singles competition and she has a tough opening match against second seed Zhou Mi of Hong Kong. In the same half of the draw are upcoming Chinese talent Wang Shixian and world champion Lu Lan.
Malaysia are not represented in the men’s, women’s and mixed doubles events.
Courtesy of The Star
The Latest World Ranking:
BWF WORLD RANKING DATE: 31 DECEMBER 2009 MENS SINGLES Ranking BWF ID Lastname Firstname Gender Country Points Tour 1 50152 LEE Chong Wei M MAS 81771.06 15 2 50906 LIN Dan M CHN 71344.58 8 3 10337 HIDAYAT Taufik M INA 65060 12 4 6926 GADE Peter Hoeg M DEN 63455.18 12 5 51592 CHEN Jin M CHN 62260 10 6 51599 SANTOSO Simon M INA 56480.04 13 7 50427 DWI KUNCORO Sony M INA 55212.04 11 8 51274 Bao Chunlai M CHN 53500 11 9 51324 PARK Sung Hwan M KOR 52926.67 11 10 54431 Jorgensen Jan O M DEN 52307.81 17 11 14107 NGUYEN Tien Minh M VIE 50310 13 12 75787 CHEN Long M CHN 49620 12 13 11959 PONSANA Boonsak M THA 47391.75 14 14 4240 WONG Choong Hann M MAS 43650 18 15 51306 CHAN Yan Kit M HKG 42262.6 18 16 11691 ANAND Chetan M IND 41169 20 17 15751 HSIEH Yu Hsin M TPE 40330 14 18 51053 PERSSON Joachim M DEN 38050.49 11 19 14869 HU Yun M HKG 37930 13 20 6967 PALYAMA Dicky M NED 37806.64 15 21 63707 TAGO Kenichi M JPN 37461.6 14 22 50858 Zwiebler Marc M GER 37208.45 16 23 12370 HASHIM Muhammad Hafiz M MAS 36900 11 24 51613 Ouseph Rajiv M ENG 34383.33 18 25 8396 WACHA Przemyslaw M POL 34040.6 15 26 50905 SASAKI Sho M JPN 32707.37 14 27 10319 Pang Eric M NED 32640.06 16 28 52738 TEDJONO Andre Kurniawan M INA 32250 11 29 14078 SMITH Andrew M ENG 31937.22 21 30 66990 Rumbaka Dyonisius Hayom M INA 31560 10 31 15319 BHAT Arvind M IND 30731.51 20 32 55380 DU Pengyu M CHN 30040 9 33 53944 KASHYAP P M IND 29910 17 34 52968 Leverdez Brice M FRA 28861.11 18 35 53753 Vittinghus Hans-Kristian M DEN 28580 13 36 54513 SAENSOMBOONSUK Tanongsak M THA 28150 17 37 51310 SRIDHAR Anup M IND 27960 17 38 9662 NG Wei M HKG 27870 13 39 53119 Baxter Carl M ENG 27330 18 40 15453 Lang Ville M FIN 27232.62 15 41 15172 Mikkelsen Peter M DEN 26560 12 42 54346 SHON Wan Ho M KOR 25910 10 43 53825 Thomsen Christian Lind M DEN 25380 19 44 51598 PAWAR Anand M IND 24290 16 45 53011 Lo Ying Ping Matthieu M FRA 23765.75 19 46 54897 CORDON Kevin M GUA 23710 12 47 52030 CHONG Wei Feng M MAS 23550 11 48 52983 HSUEH Hsuan Yi M TPE 23360.72 12 49 9166 LEE Tsuen Seng M MAS 23250 10 50 51531 Must Raul M EST 23107.84 13
BWF WORLD RANKING DATE: 31 DECEMBER 2009 WOMENS SINGLES Ranking BWF ID Lastname Firstname Gender Country Points Tour 1 53938 Wang Yihan F CHN 76831.43 15 2 53937 Lin Wang F CHN 65472.2 13 3 10358 RASMUSSEN Tine F DEN 64068.7785 11 4 9699 PI Hongyan F FRA 63792.32 17 5 7821 ZHOU Mi F HKG 60812.16 14 6 14874 Yanjiao Jiang F CHN 59540 10 7 53057 Lan Lu F CHN 57490 10 8 52748 NEHWAL Saina F IND 55444.43 17 9 13475 Schenk Juliane F GER 45322.0345 17 10 51520 Wang Xin F CHN 45240 7 11 5882 WANG Chen F HKG 44127.2 11 12 83064 WANG Shixian F CHN 41600 8 13 5564 YAO Jie F NED 41525.313 13 14 50728 PONSANA Salakjit F THA 41495.11 14 15 12765 NEDELCHEVA Petya F BUL 41428.3138 19 16 14710 FIRDASARI Adrianti F INA 39657.23 13 17 51649 YIP Pui Yin F HKG 39451.82 18 18 50254 Xingfang Xie F CHN 39010 6 19 15409 HWANG Hye Youn F KOR 35131.35 10 20 11769 WONG Mew Choo F MAS 34626.23 12 21 53806 ZHANG Beiwen F SIN 34500 15 22 6115 Diehl Ella F RUS 34071.0502 14 23 77317 SATO Sayaka F JPN 33888.06 14 24 51396 BAE Seung Hee F KOR 33340 12 25 6964 Meulendijks Judith F NED 33120.48 15 26 54531 GOTO Ai F JPN 32640 15 27 66974 Kusumastuti Maria Febe F INA 32310 9 28 15417 HIROSE Eriko F JPN 31820 9 29 54357 KIM Moon Hi F KOR 31340 13 30 51281 Zhu Lin F CHN 29210 8 31 52103 CHEAH Lydia Li Ya F MAS 28490 12 32 12818 EGELSTAFF Susan F SCO 28468.38 13 33 54532 TARUNO Megumi F JPN 28120 14 34 51368 Griga Larisa F UKR 27928.3866 15 35 15712 WONG Julia Pei Xian F MAS 27840.94 7
BWF WORLD RANKING DATE: 24 DECEMBER 2009 MENS DOUBLES Ranking P1MemberID P1Lastname P1Firstname P1Gender P1Country P2MemberID P2Lastname P2Firstname P2Gender P2Country Points TOUR 1 14288 KOO Kien Keat M MAS 52703 TAN Boon Heong M MAS 74779.26 14 2 53426 JUNG Jae Sung M KOR 52774 LEE Yong Dae M KOR 69077.47 9 3 50420 KIDO Markis M INA 51074 SETIAWAN Hendra M INA 68888.79 11 4 50292 BOE Mathias M DEN 51304 MOGENSEN Carsten M DEN 65393.42 11 5 11354 CHANDRA Alvent Yulianto M INA 11401 GUNAWAN Hendra Aprida M INA 55230 16 6 7575 PAASKE Lars M DEN 9578 RASMUSSEN Jonas M DEN 51289.51 11 7 50251 CAI Yun M CHN 51729 FU Haifeng M CHN 51263.66 6 8 7759 CHOONG Tan Fook M MAS 7760 LEE Wan Wah M MAS 48570 13 9 14607 Guo Zhendong M CHN 51620 Xu Chen M CHN 48100 11 10 9819 CLARK Anthony M ENG 7572 ROBERTSON Nathan M ENG 44898.93 10 11 53613 CHEN Hung Ling M TPE 53614 LIN Yu Lang M TPE 43121.2 14 12 6783 Bach Howard M USA 3181 Gunawan Tony M USA 42674.6 10 13 12356 GAN Teik Chai M MAS 50714 TAN Bin Shen M MAS 42180 15 14 52749 AHSAN Muhammad M INA 52742 SEPTANO Bona M INA 41755 13 15 13137 ABDUL LATIF Mohd Zakry M MAS 50147 MOHD TAZARI Mohd Fairuzizuan M MAS 40450 9
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