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Dubai BWF World SuperSeries Finals:<br />
An Indication of the Future?<br />
DubaiBWFWorldSuperSeriesFinals:<br />
AnIndicationof<br />
theFuture?<br />
International Badminton Magazine looks back at the spectacular<br />
year-end BWF World Superseries Finals to try and predict what might<br />
happen in the coming year.<br />
Japanese Shine In Dubai As Olympic Race<br />
Intensifies<br />
Nozomi Okuhara and Kento Momota proved that Japan has<br />
definitely become one of the best badminton nations when<br />
they scooped the Singles titles in Dubai’s Superseries Finals at<br />
the end of December. They will be strong contenders for Rio’s<br />
Olympics, which enters its last stage with a deadline on April 30.<br />
No one would have imagined that Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara<br />
and Kento Momota would scoop both of the Singles titles in<br />
the season finale in Dubai where the best eight players in each<br />
category were invited to the World Superseries Finals in the<br />
Hamdan Complex.<br />
After enjoying some of the local fun – the hydroplane for Tai Tzu<br />
Ying or a small run down on a sledge with the penguins in Dubai<br />
Mall for Lee Yong Dae - the best players on the planet had their<br />
eyes set on the one million prize money.<br />
6 | <strong>March</strong> <strong>2016</strong> INTERNATIONALBADMINTONMAGAZINE<br />
www.isportgroup.com/InternationalBadmintonMagazine
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