JAKARTA – Three Indonesian representatives are included in the list of nominations to receive the BWF Player of the Year 2024 or Best Player of 2024 Award.
The Badminton International Federation (BWF) released the list on December 2, 2024. There are five main awards given by the international badminton parent company.
It consists of top players in the sector from men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. Each sector has only four nominations.
The three Indonesian representatives who feature in the series are women’s singles Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, doubles sons of Fajar Alfian / Muhammad Rian Ardianto and mixed doubles Dejan Ferdinansyah / Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja.
These Indonesian representatives also competed against the gold medal winners of the 2024 Paris Olympics, such as Viktor Axelsen, An Se-young, Chen Qing Chen/Jia Yi Fan and Zheng Si Wei/Huang Ya Qiong.
These players are proposed to take into account consistency throughout the season, fair playing attitude and personality. All this is considered for a period of 12 months, from December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024.
In the men’s singles, Viktor Axelsen will face competition from three other nominees, namely Shi Yu Qi, Chou Tien Chen and his compatriot Anders Antonsen.
In addition, in women’s singles, in addition to Gregory who was defeated in the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics, An Se-young will also compete with the Chinese duo, namely Wang Zhi Yi and Han Yue.
Moving to the men’s doubles sector, Liang Wei Keng/Wang Chang, silver medalist at Paris 2024, including among the nominees with Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto, Kim Astrup/Anders Slackup Rasmussen and Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung- jae.
For the women’s doubles featuring 2024 Olympic finalists Chen Qing Chen/Jia Yi Fan and compatriot Liu Sheng Shu/Tan reng as well as Baek Ha-na/Lee So-hee and Nami Matsuyama/Chiharu Shida.
Finally, in the mixed doubles Dejan/Gloria must compete with three representatives from China, namely Zheng Si Wei/Huang Yaqiong, Asian champion Feng Yan Zhe/Huang Dong Ping and Indonesia Open champion Jiang Zhen Bang/Wei Ya Xin.
The nomination for the 2024 BWF Player of the Year will be announced at the 2024 BWF World Tour Finals Gala Dinner on Monday, December 9, 2024, at Hangzhou Hall, the Intercontinental Hotel in Hangzhou, China.
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