On July 15, today’s men’s doubles badminton draw for the Paris Olympics has been concluded. Top seeds Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang and world championship winners, the Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik, are placed in Group A. Meanwhile, Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi have entered the group of death with five teams.
This men’s doubles tournament will see an unprecedented situation due to a mistake by the BWF in calculating world ranking points, which led to an appeal by the French Badminton Association that was granted. As a result, there will be 17 pairs competing in the men’s doubles event at the Paris Olympics, with the top two from each group advancing to the knockout stage.
The specific groups are as follows:
Group A: [1] Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang (China), Ben Lane/Vincent Choong (England), Dong Xingyu/Shimo Ni (Canada), Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik (Malaysia)
Group B: [4] Kang Minhyuk/Seo Seungjae (Korea), Big Bobotov/Little Bobotov (France), Supak Kedren/Kittinupong Kedren (Thailand), Král/Mendrek (Czech Republic)
Group C: [3] Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty (India), Colewe/Rabarl (France), Alfian/Adianto (Indonesia), Ramsfuss/Siedel (Germany)
Group D: [2] Astrup/Rasmussen (Denmark), Liu Yuchen/Ou Xuanyi (China), Lee Yang/Wang Chi-lin (Chinese Taipei), Takuma Ueda/Yuta Watanabe (Japan), Qiu Kaixiang/Joshua Yuan (USA)
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