For the second year in a row, badminton tournament Yonex Dutch Junior International is canceled. In March, the biggest international top talents would compete with each other in the DEGIRO sports hall. The organization finds the situation surrounding the corona measures too uncertain and has therefore decided to cancel the tournament after much deliberation.
Due to ‘last Friday’s only limited relaxation, combined with the rising infection figures and the associated uncertainty about the omikron variant’, the tournament cannot continue, the organization said. He says he did not take it overnight to come to this decision. The next edition is now planned from 1 to 5 March 2023.
World top up to 19 years
The badminton tournament in Haarlem is one of the biggest four in the world, where the international world’s top under 19s compete against each other.
In March 2020, when the corona pandemic had only just broken out, the tournament went ahead the last time through. Only the talents from China could not travel to the Netherlands at the time due to the outbreak of the corona virus. NH Nieuws then made the following report: