Singapore loses more international players

Singapore’s Today reported this week on the departure, from the national badminton team, of two shuttlers of international origin.  The first such news  in the run-up to the 2011 Singapore Open Super Series, was confirmation of the resignations of Indonesian-born doubles players Hendra Wijaya and Hendri Kurniawan Saputra, both brothers of defending women’s doubles player Shinta Mulia Sari.

A day later came news that 2008 Vietnam Open winner Zhang Beiwen had failed the latest cut for the Singapore National Team, a development that has most likely excluded her from the SEA Games this fall, according to Today‘s source.  The Chinese-born singles specialist has been suspended more than once by the Singapore Badminton Association.