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PHUKET: Phuket is set to give badminton a boost next month when it hosts the first Dunlop Phuket Open at the Saphan Hin sports center from August 5 to 9.

The event is expected to attract Thailand’s top badminton players, who will battle it out with their rackets and shuttlecocks for prize money totaling 750,000 baht.

The five-day event has been jointly organized by the Badminton Association of Thailand, the Sport Association of Phuket and Baan Bang Niow Badminton Club.

For more information call the Sport Association of Phuket, Saphanhin Center on 076-379001 or visit www.phuketopen2009.com (Thai language only).

— Thanasorn Chookate