HONG KONG: Badm­inton’s world tour hopes to resume in Sept., officials said on Friday, announcing a revised schedule with several tournaments moved or cancelled because of the months-long coronavirus shutdown.

The circuit will restart in Taiwan on Sept. 1, the Badminton World Feder­ation said, with 16 tournaments building up to the World Tour Finals in Guangzhou, southern China from Dec. 16.

Major events in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thai­land and India are among those that have been rescheduled, while the World Tour Finals were pushed back by a week.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2020