Alwi Farhan, who won the BWF World Junior Championships in Spokane, USA last year will feature at his third HSBC BWF World Tour event at the PRINCESS SIRIVANNAVARI Thailand Masters 2024.

Farhan takes the place of withdrawn top seed Kunlavut Vitidsarn and opens his campaign against Dutch veteran Mark Caljouw.

These players also have been promoted:

Men’s singles

1. Cheam June Wei (Kento Momota)
2. Mithun Manjunath (Ng Tze Yong)
3. Jason Teh (fourth seed Kanta Tsuneyama)

Women’s singles

1. Letshanaa Karupathevan (Aakarshi Kashyap)
2. Imad Farooqui Samiya (Clara Azurmendi)
3. Ines Lucia Castillo Salazar (Unnati Hooda)
4. Chiu Pin Chian (sixth seed Yeo Jia Min)
5. Rachel Darragh (Goh Jin Wei)
6. Liang Ting Yu (Putri Kusuma Wardani)
7. Ashmita Chaliha (Lalinrat Chaiwan)
8. Wong Ling Ching (Pitchamon Opatniputh)
9. Komang Ayu Cahya Dewi (second seed Pornpawee Chochuwong)

Men’s doubles

1. Lwi Sheng Hao/Jimmy Wong (top seeds Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto)
2. Joshua Magee/Paul Reynolds (Kim Gi Jung/Kim Sa Rang)
3. Lu Ming Che/Tang Kai Wei (M.R Arjun/Dhruv Kapila)

Women’s doubles

1. Keng Shu Liang/Zhang Chi (Vivian Hoo/Lim Chiew Sien)
2. Sung Shuo Yun/Yu Chien Hui (fifth seeds Gabriela Stoeva/Stefani Stoeva)
3. Hung En Tzu/Lin Yu Pei (Anna Ching/Teoh Mei Xing)
4. Hu Ling Fang/Lin Xiao Min (Laksika Kanlaha/Phataimas Muenwong)
5. Katlyn Ea/Gronya Somerville (Setyana Mapasa/Angela Yu)

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PRINCESS SIRIVANNAVARI Thailand Masters 2024 starts today, with the first qualification round match scheduled at 10am Kuala Lumpur time (UTC +8).

Fun fact: Vitidsarn himself was a three-time world junior champion from 2017-2019.