Ivanov and Sozonov start at the World Badminton Championships in China – Badminton News – Summer

The Nanjing tournament will be held on the Olympic system, starting with the 1/32 finals. Ivanov and Sozonov, thanks to the high number of seedlings, are released from the first-round match and will start the starting game in the 1/16 elimination round. The leaders of the world ranking are the Indonesians Marcus Gideon and Kevin Sukamillo. At the men's doubles tournament, there will also be Russians Eugene Dremin and Denis Grachev, Konstantin Abramov and Alexander Zinchenko

Vladimir Malkov and Sergei Sirant will play in the individual tournament, Natalia Perminova and Yevgenia Kosetskaya in the women's team. In the women's doubles tournament, Russia will be represented by Ekaterina Bolotova and Alina Davletova. Yevgeny Dremin and Yevgenia Dimova, as well as Rodion Alimov and Davletova, are announced in the mix

Olympic Champions Rio de Janeiro in singles and the Chinese Chen Lun and the Spanish Carolina Marin will perform in World's Championships. A year ago in Scotland, Glasgow athletes could not win medals – men were excused Dane Victor Axelsen, women – Japanese Nozomi Okuhara. In Nanjing, they will defend the world titles won a year ago.

The 2017 world champions in the men's doubles category will be the champions Liu Chen and Zhang Nan, as well as the winners of last year's women's tournament Chen Jing Ying and Jia Yifan representing China. The next world championship will be missed by the winners of the Glasgow tournament among mixed Indonesians Tontovi Ahmad and Liliana Natsir.

The competitions will take place during the week, the finals are scheduled for August 5th. The championship will take place in the arena of the Nanjing Sports Park, which hosted the Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014.

The first World Badminton Championship was held in 1977 in Malmö in Sweden. National badminton players did not win any medals, and more often than not in the world championships won representatives of China – 63 gold medals. 22 titles were won by Indonesian athletes.