BADMINTON Preview: Excellent field gathering for Indonesia Masters

The BWF World Tour continues its travels through southeast Asia, this week landing in Jakarta (INA) for a Super 500-level tournament, the Daihatsu Indonesia Masters. The fields are strong and the top seeds include:

Men’s Singles:
1. Kento Momota (JPN) ~ World-ranked no. 1
2. Yuqi Shi (CHN) ~ World-ranked no. 2
3. Tien Chen Chou (TPE) ~ World-ranked no. 3

Men’s Doubles:
1. Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (INA) ~World-ranked no. 1
2. Junhui Li/Yuchen Liu (CHN) ~ World-ranked no. 2
3. Takeshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda (JPN) ~ World-ranked no. 3

Women’s Singles:
1. Nozomi Okuhara (JPN) ~ World-ranked no. 2
2. V. Sindhu Pusarla (IND) ~ World-ranked no. 3
3. Yufei Chen (CHN) ~ World-ranked no. 4

Women’s Doubles:
1. Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota (JPN) ~ World-ranked no. 1
2. Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi (JPN) ~ World-ranked no. 2
3. Mayu Matsumoto/Wagana Nagahara (JPN) ~ World-ranked no. 3

Mixed Doubles:
1. Siwei Zheng/Yaqiong Huang (CHN) ~ World-ranked no. 1
2. Yuta Watanabe/Arisa Higashino (JPN) ~ World-ranked no. 3
3. Tontowi Ahmad/Lilyana Natsir (INA) ~ World-ranked no. 4

Defending champions back from 2019 include Momota, Gideon and Sukamuljo in men’s Doubles, Fukushima and Hirota in women’s Doubles and two-time defending champions Ahmad/Natsir.

Look for results here.