Paris, Odense, Fuzhou, Macau and back to Hong Kong: Badminton ace Angus Ng faces gruelling schedule
Hong Kong champion needs to do a lot of travelling to get enough points to qualify for Guangzhou finale in December
Shuttler Angus Ng Ka-long faces a scheduling nightmare as he races against time to book his place in the year-end world tour finals.
Ranked 15th in the race to the finals, Ng must excel in five tournaments to have any chance of qualifying for the Guangzhou finale in December, where only the world’s top eight players, with a maximum two from each country, are eligible to start.
Ng will need to clock thousands of kilometres as he will compete in tournaments in Asia and Europe, guaranteeing a gruelling and hectic schedule.
“It will definitely be a big test of my physical and mental fitness,” said Ng, who will be leaving for Odense, near Copenhagen on Saturday for next week’s Denmark Open, the first of the five big tournaments he has entered.
“There will be five matches in a tournament if you reach the final, and a total of 25 [matches] if you make it to the finals of all but that’s extremely unlikely. But to qualify for the world tour finals and getting good results such as reaching the last eight place are necessary [for me]. It’s a big challenge that I need to overcome.”
