World's current top professional badminton players Chen Long and Lin Dan of China revealed that the "Singapore Open is hard to play" during a press conference held ahead of the BWF World Superseries category tournament on Tuesday.

The two elite shuttlers of the world have competed and came out victorious at several badminton competitions around the globe (sharing a total of 81 individual titles between them) but the Singapore Open crown, which has a money prize of US$350,000.00, is one that has eluded China's Chen Long and Lin Dan thus far.

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Two-time Olympic champion Lin participated in the 2011 Singapore Open, but only managed to finish as the tourney's runner-up. The current world No. 1 Chen Long has already competed three times, but never reached even the quarterfinal round of the Singapore City-based badminton event.

"I haven't been here for a couple of years and the Singapore Open is one of the hardest tournaments to play because of the draft," said Lin, who is ranked world No. 3 by the BWF. "My best performance was the finals and I'm hoping to do better this time round and I look forward to badminton fans coming down to support Team China and Lin Dan."

2015 BWF World Champion Chen will be looking to bounce back and recover from his loss to Lee Chong Wei in the recently concluded Malaysia Open final.

Chen, 27, will be striving to claim his first ever Singapore Open crown. The Chinese ace was unsuccessful in his two previous participations as he was eliminated in the second round of the tournament in both 2011 and 2015.

"This is my third time here and I have never entered the quarter finals before so I hope that I can enter this time round," Chen said.

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