Hyderabad shuttler PV Sindhu has qualified for the BWF World Tour Finals, the season-ending event for the top eight players in the rankings. It runs from December 9 to 13 in Hangzhou, China.
Key points
- She won the Hylo Open, her second title of the season, beating Denmark's Line Højmark Kjaersfeldt 21-12, 21-14 in the final.
- The win added 9,200 points and lifted her two places to world No. 6, her best ranking since October 2022.
- This is her sixth World Tour Finals and her first since 2021. She qualified in 2022 but withdrew with an injury.
- She won the title in 2018, beating Nozomi Okuhara, and remains the only Indian to have done so.
The rest of the field
An Se-young, Akane Yamaguchi, Wang Zhiyi and Chen Yufei have already qualified in women's singles. The remaining spots will be settled after the November 24 cut-off.
