An Se-young Recovers, Danger Signal For Gregoria At The 2025 World Championship

An Se-yong is almost recovering from injury, ready to appear in the 2025 BWF World Championships (doc. BWF).

JAKARTA The world number one badminton player, An Se-young, confirmed that he was almost completely recovering from the knee problem ahead of the 2025 World Championships (BWF World Championships 2025). This is a dangerous signal for his opponents, including Indonesia's mainstay, Gregoria Mariska Tunjung.

The 23-year-old badminton player last month was plagued by an injury to the knee that forced him to withdraw from the semifinals of the China Open 2025 while battling host Han Yue's singles.

An Se-young said that he was lucky to recover from the problem so that he was very ready to defend his title at the 2025 World Championships.

"My knee has fully recovered. Even though some of my exercises are intense, I can still follow it. The recovery is almost 100 percent," he said on the official BWF website.

The draw put the South Korean women's singles in the top quarter of the women's singles of 64 with Gregoria. If both go smoothly to the top eight, the two will also face each other in the quarter-finals.

Apart from Gregoria, An Se-young's efforts to reach the final round are also likely to be tested by names such as Ratchanok Intanon, fourth seed Chen Yu Fei, compatriot Sim Yu-jin, and Michelle Li.

All of these names are in the top half of the chart so their chances of dealing with each other before the final round are very open. Even though as the top seed, An Se-young could have stumbled against them.

"All opponents are a threat to me, but the biggest threat is actually to myself."

"At the World Championships, there are no matches that I can take lightly. I just need to face them one by one," he said.

An Se-young in this season's calendar has garnered six titles, three of which are from the Super 1000 BWF. He won Malaysia Open, India Open, Orleans Masters, All England, Indonesia Open, and most recently the Japan Open in July 2025.

The 2025 World Championships will take place at Adidas Arena, Paris, France, on August 25-31, 2025. The arena is where An Se-young won the 2024 Olympic gold medal an achievement that further confirms his position as the best today.

Apart from coming on as the Olympic gold medalist and world number one, An Se-young is also the defending champion at the World Championships. In the 2023 edition, he climbed the highest podium after defeating Carolina Marin from Spain.