More global sports events have been affected amid the coronavirus pandemic as of Friday, adding their mark to the already shredded 2020 sports calendar.

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) confirmed on Friday to postpone the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals 2020 which were supposed to take place in Aarhus, Denmark from May 16-24. Instead, they will be staged on August 15-23. 

The BWF has also called off the last five tournaments in the qualification period for the Tokyo Olympics, which are the Croatian International, Peru International, European Championships, Asia Championships and Pan Am Individual Championships in Guatemala City. 

That made the All England Open, played from March 11-15 as the final event to count towards Olympic qualification., with rankings at the end of April deciding which players will be at the Tokyo Games.

"All five tournaments were slated to be played within the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying period, but will no longer contribute to Olympic qualifying as they will now fall outside the qualification window," the BWF said in a statement.

Same on Friday, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) announced the postponement of another two 2020 ITTF World Tour events scheduled in May amid the pandemic.

The Hong Kong Open, originally scheduled for May 5-10 in Hong Kong and the Platinum China Open scheduled on May 12-17 in Shenzhen, joined the latest table tennis events casualties after the World Table Tennis Championships in March, the Japan Open in April, as well as June's Australian Open and Korean Open have been suspended.

No further dates as to when these two events will be staged are given at this stage.

Even with some sports governing bodies who have decided a primary postponement date, many are only tentative because judging from the current coronavirus situation, no one is certain as to when the situation will be back to normal.

The 2020 European Aquatics Championships that was scheduled to take place from May 11-24 in Budapest, Hungary, has been postponed to August, announced Europe's aquatics governing body (LEN) on Friday.

The event has been tentatively postponed to August 17-30, a week after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are set to conclude, but LEN is open to other possibilities at the same time.

"At this stage it's difficult, if not impossible, to plan with a definite time frame," LEN president Paolo Barelli said in a statement.

The Hungarian organizers of the event also acknowledged challenges athletes have to face in their practice and training under such situations which are shared by all athletes either preparing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics or other major sports events.

"The participating athletes deserve the chance to have quality preparations before the big events since nowadays it's almost impossible to train properly," Hungary's minister for sports Dr Tunde Szabo said.

On Friday also, World Rugby has postponed several tournaments and World Cup qualifiers due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Men's and women's World Cup regional qualifying events, Sevens Series tournaments in London and Paris, the women's Sevens Series tournament in Langford and the final men's Sevens Challenger Series event have been postponed.

The governing body has been consulting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to see if the 12-team Olympic Games repechage qualification tournament scheduled for June 20-21 can go ahead as planned.

"We have two women's and one men's teams left to qualify and are currently considering all options to ensure a fair and credible conclusion to the qualification process," World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont said in a statement.

The World Rugby Under-20 Championship that was to be held from June 28-July 18 in northern Italy has been cancelled after discussions with the Italian rugby federation.

Up to Friday, 234,073 coronavirus cases have been confirmed worldwide with 9,840 deaths. Confirmed cases have been identified across 176 countries, areas or territories.

The global sports have been disrupted in an unprecedented way with professional athletes affected with coronavirus, events canceled or postponed, and sports-related workers left with no work to do.

The coronavirus pandemic has also put the Tokyo Olympics at stake although both IOC and the Tokyo organizers have reiterated the Games will go ahead as planned.