Badminton schedule 2024: Paris Olympics headlines actioned-packed year for shuttlers
The 2024 badminton calendar starts with the Malaysia Masters in January and ends with the BWF World Tour Finals in December. The Olympics are in July-August.
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The 2024 badminton season promises to be a thrilling one.
Besides the customary 31 BWF World Tour events and the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals in December, the Olympics and Thomas and Uber Cup Finals will add some extra spice for badminton fans all over the world and India.
The Malaysia Open BWF Super 1000 tournament, scheduled from January 9 to 14, will be the first event on the 2024 badminton schedule. The BWF World Tour Finals, slated for December 11-15 will be the last piece of top-notch badminton action for the year.
The highlight of the badminton calendar, however, will be the Paris 2024 Olympics, which will be held from July 27 to August 5. Being an Olympic year, there will be no senior world badminton championships in 2024.
However, even before the Olympics start, top Indian badminton players including PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy and Chirag Shetty-Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, will be looking to secure their respective quotas at the upcoming Summer Games.
The Race to Paris Olympic Qualification period for badminton is already in effect and runs till April 28, 2024. This means that players will be on the hunt for qualifying ranking points before the window closes.
Barring the 31 BWF World Tour 2024 events, the World Tour Finals in Hangzhou and the Paris Olympics, Indian shuttlers will also be in action at top-tier continental competitions like the Badminton Asia Team and Individual championships.
The Thomas and Uber Cup Finals in April-May will also be highlights of the season. India are the reigning Thomas Cup champions, having won the prestigious team-based tournament in 2022.
The high-profile annual All England Championships is scheduled between March 12 and 17 this year.