Wong Wing Ki

[3] Hong Kong head coach Tim He Yiming said, "The result will have a great impact on Wong, as he is challenging for a place in next year's Olympic Games.

He was then in superb form to claim a 21–9, 21–17, victory against 2010 World Champion Chen Jin, which set up with a quarter-final match with Jan O Jorgensen.

[8] Jorgensen ended the giant-killing run of Wong Wing Ki when he defeated the Hong Kong shuttler 21–17, 21–11.

[9] Wong Wing Ki was one of eighteen players seeded in the 2012 London Olympics Men's singles tournament.

[12] Wong, who had not played in the international circuit for 2 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced that the World Championships would be his final tournament.