Badminton News: Monday night, the YONEX Canada Open 2022 kicks off in Calgary. While many Canadian players are looking to use their home tournaments to rack up world ranking points, several European players will also be looking to make an impact on Canadian soil.
The biggest name in this tournament is undoubtedly three-time world champion Carolina Marin from Spain. After picking up another horrific knee injury in 2021 that forced him off eleven months of competition, Marin is still on a comeback mission to fight his way to the top of the world rankings. And the six-time back-to-back European champion hopes to take another step in the right direction in Canada:
“Canada Open, let’s go! Ready to give my best this week,” he captioned an Instagram video showing his preparation on the pitch.
Several French, Spanish, Danish and German players will face each other in Calgary this week. Most of them had already played their first round yesterday. Israel’s Misha Zilberman (No. 3, MS) and France’s Arnaud Merkle (No. 4, MS) and Qi Xuefei (No. 5, WS) all won their first matches in Canada.
Carolina Marin uses a lot of lower-level tournaments as part of the warm-up before high-level tournaments to build confidence. For example, in 2019, after recovering from an ACL injury in 2018, the Spanish queen of badminton made a comeback at the 2019 Vietnam Open tournament before successfully defending the prestigious title two weeks later at the China Open 2019 beating Tai Tzu Ying in the final.
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