PV Sindhu qualifies for BWF World Tour Finals after Hylo Open title

India ace shuttler P.V. Sindhu has qualified for the BWF World Tour Finals, the Badminton World Federation confirmed on Wednesday.

The World Tour Finals will take place in Hangzhou, China, from December 9-13. Her familiar foes, An Se Young, Akane Yamaguchi, Wang Zhi Yi and Chen Yu Fei, are others to qualify for the year-ender tournament.

Held during non-Thomas Cup years, the tournament invited the top eight players/pairs on the year-end world rankings. With five women’s singles players confirmed



– Japan’s Tomoka Miyazaki, Nozomi Okhuhara, Ratchanok Intanon and Putri Kusuma Wardani (Indonesia), Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong and Denmark’s Line Christophersen – are the other shutters in the race for the three remaining spots.

This will be Sindhu’s sixth career appearance in the World Tour Finals and her first since 2021. She had qualified for 2022 but withdrew due to an injury. She is the only Indian to win a BWF World Tour Finals women’s singles title when she defeated Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in 2018.