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Vietnam shuttlers face tough rivals at Malaysian Open

Xinhua, March 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Vietnam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh will likely face stronger rivals in the 500,000 US-dollar Maybank Malaysian Open Superseries scheduled from March 31 to April 5.

World No. 22 Minh is in quarter two and will meet a qualifying round winner in the first round, where he is predicted to win, local Vietnam News daily reported Tuesday, quoting news from the BWF (Badminton World Federation).

In the following round, the Olympian Minh will meet tough rival Hans-Kristian Vittinghus of Denmark, world's No. 9, who entered the quarterfinal in Yonex BWF World Championships in 2011.

If Minh goes on, he will face world's No. 2 and All-England runner-up Jan O. Jorgensen of Denmark, and world's No. 3 Lin Dan of China.

Meanwhile, Vietnam's female player Vu Thi Trang, world's No. 49, will meet world's No. 21 Porntip Buranaprasertsu of Thailand in the first round. If Trang qualifies, she will face world's No. 2 Wang Shixian of China in the next round. Endi