FILE PHOTO: Badminton - Danisa Denmark Open 2019 - Men's Singles - Odense, Denmark - October 15, 2019. Kento Momota of Japan in action in his match against Wong Wing Ki Vincent of Hong Kong. (Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/Claus Fisker/via REUTERS)

KUALA LUMPUR: Badminton world number one Kento Momota could be released from hospital in Malaysia on Wednesday (Jan 15), local media quoted a hospital official as saying, after the Japanese shuttler avoided serious injury in a vehicle collision that left one person dead.