Sindhu drawn to play on Sunday

Dubai: PV Sindhu will be hoping to become the only Indian woman to win the year-end crown as she plays top-ranked Akane Yamaguchi of Japan when the two meet in the women’s singles final at 2 pm in the BWF Dubai World Superseries Finals at the Hamdan Sports Complex, on Sunday.

First launched in 2008 in Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia, China holds the envious record of winning three men’s singles titles and four women’s singles crowns.

Malaysia is second best behind the Chinese with a total of five singles titles with the legendary Lee Chong Wei winning it on four occasions.

As per the rules, only the top eight players or pairs in the Super Singles rankings after the final Super Series tournament are eligible to participate. However, it is limited to two entries per member association. With the year-end tournament moving to Dubai in 2014, the prize money was doubled to $1 million.

The first final on Sunday will be the mixed doubles followed by the women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and finally the men’s singles.
 
Sunday's schedule

Mixed doubles) Tang Chun Man/Tse Ying Suet (Hong Kong) vs Zheng Siwei/Chen Qingchen (China).

(Women’s singles) Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) vs PV Sindhu (India).
(Men’s doubles) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon/Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo vs Liu Cheng/Zhang Nan (China).
(Women’s doubles) Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota (Japan) vs Shiho Tanaka/Koharu Yonemoto (Japan).
(Men’s singles) Viktor Axelsen (Denmark) vs Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia).