BWF WORLD SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009 - Former world champs going great guns
News 9:34 AM
Former world champions Jesper Helledie-Steen Fladberg marched into the Under 50 men’s doubles semi-finals.
The Danes, world champions in 1983 when the World Championships were held in
The Danes, the No 2 seeds, won 21-10-21-13 and will take on
The BWF World Senior Championships, into its fourth edition, has attracted a huge number of entries with 708 players from 34 countries competing in the week long tournament.
The countries with the highest number of competitors are
Not to be outdone, former world senior championships under-45 men’s doubles champions Leon Douglas-Dan Travers were also impressive in their 21-13, 21-9 demolition of
Travers, who is also a former Commonwealth Games gold and European bronze medallist, is currently coaching at
Travers-Douglas will take on
The BWF World Senior Championships is held biennially and this year, the youngest competitor is 35 years old while D.D. Magotra from
A total of 35 categories are being contested. They are Men’s Singles 35 (MS-35), Women’s Singles 35 (WS-35), Men’s Doubles 35 (MD-35), Women’s Doubles 35 (WD-35), Mixed Doubles 35 (XD-35), MS-40, WS-40, MD-40, WD-40, XD-40, MS-45, WS-45, MD-45, WD-45, XD-45, MS-50, WS-50, MD-50, WD-50, XD-50, MS-55, WS-55, MD-55, WD-55, XD-55, MS-60, WS-60, MD-60, WD-60, XD-60, MS-65, WS-65, MD-65, WD-65 and XD-65.
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