Badminton player Nguyen Thuy Linh hopes to win a place at the 2024 Paris Olympics

July 30, 2023 05:30

Vietnam's No. 1 female tennis player Nguyen Thuy Linh is in the group attending the 2024 Paris Olympics. She has a great opportunity to participate in an Olympics for the second time.

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Badminton player Nguyen Thuy Linh

The badminton singles event at the 2024 Paris Olympics has 38 places for men and 38 places for women. For each gender, there is 1 place for the host country and 2 wildcard places. The remaining 35 places are determined based on the ranking position on the "Paris Ranking".

This ranking will start from 1.5.2023 and end on 28.4.2023. On 30.4.2024, the list of players who have won tickets to the Paris Olympics will be officially announced on this Paris Ranking.

In the men's and women's singles, Member Olympic Committees (NOCs) with at least two players in the top 16 of the Paris Rankings will be awarded two spots at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The remaining NOCs will be awarded a maximum of one spot at the Games.

Since the beginning of the year, Thuy Linh has played in 3 tournaments within the Badminton World Federation (BWF) competition system and is used as a basis to determine the ranking position to decide whether the athlete qualifies for the 2024 Paris Olympics or not.

These are the Chinese Taipei Open in June 2023, the Canadian Open and the US Open (all in July 2023). In the Chinese Taipei Open, Thuy Linh was eliminated in the second round and had 2750 accumulated points. In the Canadian Open, Thuy Linh reached the quarterfinals and had 5040 accumulated points. In the US Open, Thuy Linh also reached the quarterfinals and had 3850 accumulated points.

Thus, Thuy Linh has accumulated 11,640 points after the 3 tournaments mentioned above and she is currently ranked 27th on the Paris Ranking (on the BWF General Ranking, Thuy Linh is ranked 23rd). Thuy Linh's current position of 27 is in the group of female tennis players who are eligible to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Thuy Linh has only played 3 tournaments. The important thing is that she needs to continue to participate in more BWF tournaments and needs to go deep in those tournaments to accumulate points to win a ticket to Paris. If she participates in Paris 2024, this will be the second time Thuy Linh participates in an Olympics. Previously, the number 1 female tennis player of Vietnam participated in the Tokyo Olympics.

According to VNA

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