Taipei Open canceled

Thu, 23 Nov 2000, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (Agencies): The Chinese Taipei Badminton Open
organizers -- which traditionally follows the Korea Open as one
of the season openers in January -- have announced that the event
had to be shelved due to lack of financial support and its
proximity to the Lunar New Year holidays at that time.

"This again proves the need for the IBF to take radical action
to improve the perception and image of the game and develop
globally recognized players," said the International Badminton
Federation (IBF) Director of Events, Vanessa Freeman, as quoted
by worldbadminton.net on Wednesday.

In 2000, several Grand Prix series -- Singapore Open, China
Open and Hong Kong Open -- had to be canceled due to sponsorship
problems.

"If there is any good to come out of these cancellations it
must be that people will now wake up to the fact that we need to
move the sport on and make some changes - no-one likes change,
but the whole image is reality in today's global market place."

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