2008 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
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The 2008 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix is the second season of BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix is a third-level badminton tournament structure introduced by the Badminton World Federation . It is played in several countries a season and offers a minimum of US$120,000 prize money for a Grand Prix Gold event and minimum of US$50,000 prize money for a...

 with fourteen tournaments in contested. The season will start with German Open
German Open (badminton)
The German Open is an annual badminton tournament held in Germany since 1955 and organized by German Badminton Association or Deustcher Badminton Verband ....

 and ended with Vietnam Open
Vietnam Open (badminton)
The Vietnam Open in badminton is an international open held in Vietnam since 1996.In its first edition, the later Asia masters Lee Wan Wah and Choong Tan Fook fought for their first international title. After another edition in 1997, the championships were halted during 8 years, they were held...

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India Open
India Open (badminton)
The India Open is an annual badminton event that has been held in India since 1981. In 2011, the tournament was lifted as part of the BWF Super Series tournament, after four years as part of Grand Prix Gold tournament.-Previous winners:...

  • Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Indoor Stadium
    Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Indoor Stadium
    Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Indoor Stadium is an indoor sporting arena located in Hyderabad, India. The capacity of the arena is 2,000 people. It hosted some events for the Afro-Asian Games in 2003....

    , Hyderabad, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

     (April 1–6)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Boonsak Ponsana
Boonsak Ponsana
Boonsak Ponsana is a male badminton player from Thailand.His younger sister Salakjit Ponsana is also part of the Thailand badminton team.-Career:...

  Chetan Anand
Chetan Anand (badminton)
Chetan Anand Buradagunta is a badminton player from India. He is considered to be one of the best male badminton players in the country after Prakash Padukone, Syed Modi and Pullela Gopichand. Chetan Anand was a four time National Badminton champion in 2003, 2006, 2007 & 2009 but his world ranking...

21–16, 21–12
Women's singles   Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi is a Chinese female badminton player. During much of her career she represented the People's Republic of China, but since 2007 she has represented Hong Kong which has a sports program and teams independent from those of the mainland. In 2010 she received a 2 year ban, for failing a drugs...

  Lu Lan
Lu Lan
Lu Lan is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:In 2004 she won the Polish Open. In 2006 she won the Korea Open and finished the year in the 5th position in the BWF World Ranking....

21–14, 21–14
Men's doubles   Guo Zhendong
Guo Zhendong
Guo Zhendong is a male badminton player from China. , he was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world.-Career:...

 & Xie Zhongbo
Xie Zhongbo
-Career:A doubles specialist on the world circuit, Xie has regularly partnered Guo Zhendong in men's doubles and Zhang Yawen in mixed doubles over the past several years. Xie and Guo have won the Polish Open , the China Masters , and the India Open together...

  Chan Chong Ming
Chan Chong Ming
Chan Chong Ming is a male badminton doubles player from Malaysia.-Career:Chan Chong Ming competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics with his then partner, Chew Choon Eng...

 & Chew Choon Eng
Chew Choon Eng
Chew Choon Eng is a male badminton player from Malaysia. He competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Chan Chong Ming. They defeated Theodoros Velkos and George Patis of Greece in the first round, then were defeated in the round of 16 by Zheng Bo and Sang...

19–21, 21–14, 21–12
Women's doubles   Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu-Chin is a female badminton player from Republic of China.Chien competed for Republic of China as Chinese Taipei in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Cheng Wen-Hsing...

 & Cheng Wen-Hsing
Cheng Wen-Hsing
Cheng Wen-Hsing is a female badminton player from Taiwan.Cheng competed for the Republic of China in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Chien Yu Chin...

  Miyuki Maeda
Miyuki Maeda
is a female international badminton player.-Career:Maeda's first major success was at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. With her women's doubles partner Satoko Suetsuna they finished fourth, the best performance to date by Japanese badminton players at the Olympics. The two have continued to compete...

 & Satoko Suetsuna
21–17, 21–16
Mixed doubles   He Hanbin
He Hanbin
He Hanbin is a male badminton player from China.- Career :A doubles specialist, He won men's doubles at the Austrian International tourney with Guo Zhendong in 2007. Most of his accomplishments, however, have come in mixed doubles with Yu Yang...

 & Yu Yang
Yu Yang (badminton)
Yu Yang is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A doubles specialist, Yu and her regular partner Du Jing have steadily emerged as one of the world's elite women's doubles teams since 2004. They confirmed this status by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in...

  Kristof Hopp
Kristof Hopp
Kristof Hopp is a male badminton player from Germany.-Career:He won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Ingo Kindervater.-References:...

 & Birgit Overzier
21–18, 21–9

European Badminton Championships
European Badminton Championships
The European Badminton Championships is a tournament organized by the Badminton Europe . The first of these competitions was held in 1968. The competition is held once every two years to determine the best badminton players in Europe....

  • Messecenter Herning
    Messecenter Herning
    The MCH Messecenter Herning is an exhibition centre and entertainment complex in Herning, Denmark. The complex is the largest fair and exhibition center in Denmark– beating the Bella Center in Copenhagen. Located on , the complex hosts many events from trade shows, theatrical performances,...

    , Herning
    Herning
    Herning Municipality is a municipality in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,336 km² and a total population of 84,208...

    , Denmark
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

     (April 12–20)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Kenneth Jonassen
Kenneth Jonassen
Kenneth Jonassen is a male badminton player from Denmark, who formerly had the fastest smash record in the singles competition, with a 298 km/h shot...

  Joachim Persson
Joachim Persson
Joachim Persson is a badminton player from Denmark. Persson is currently the 3rd highest ranked singles player in Denmark. He is set to take over Kenneth Jonassen as Denmark's second singles after Kenneth's retirement in the months to come....

21–13, 21–16
Women's singles   Xu Huaiwen   Tine Rasmussen
Tine Rasmussen
Tine Baun is a female badminton player from Denmark.Most notably, she has won the prestigious All England Open Badminton Championships women's singles title twice in 2008 and 2010....

12–21, 21–12, 21–17
Men's doubles   Lars Paaske
Lars Paaske
-Career:He competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Jonas Rasmussen. After an initial bye in the first round, they were then defeated in the next round by Yim Bang-eun and Kim Yong-hyun of Korea...

 & Jonas Rasmussen
Jonas Rasmussen
Jonas Rasmussen is a male badminton player from Denmark.With his men's double partner Lars Paaske he won the 2003 IBF World Championships defeating Indonesian couple Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto in the gold medal match and the All England Super Series 2010 defeating compatriots Mathias Boe and...

  Jens Eriksen
Jens Eriksen
Jens Dyrløv Eriksen is a male badminton player from Denmark.-2004 Olympics:He played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles and mixed doubles....

 & Martin Lundgaard Hansen
Martin Lundgaard Hansen
Martin Lundgaard Hansen is a male badminton player from Denmark.-2004 Summer Olympics:Hansen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Jens Eriksen. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Howard Bach and Kevin Qi Han of the United States in the second...

21–19, 21–16
Women's doubles   Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl is a female badminton player from Denmark.Juhl won the 2006 European Badminton Championships in mixed doubles with partner Thomas Laybourn, and a bronze medal in women's doubles with Lena Frier Kristiansen...

 & Lena Frier Kristiansen
Lena Frier Kristiansen
Lena Frier Kristiansen is a female badminton player from Denmark.-Career:She won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in women's doubles, with Kamilla Rytter Juhl.-External links:*...

  Gail Emms
Gail Emms
Gail Elizabeth Emms MBE is a retired English badminton player who has achieved international success in doubles tournaments....

 & Donna Kellogg
Donna Kellogg
Donna Victoria Kellogg MBE is an English badminton player. She first played badminton at the age of 10.-Career:Her first representative match for England was against China at the World Championships 1997 in Scotland...

21–18, 21–18
Mixed doubles   Anthony Clark
Anthony Clark (badminton)
Anthony Ian Clark is an English badminton player.-2004 Summer Olympics:Clark competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Nathan Robertson...

 & Donna Kellogg
Donna Kellogg
Donna Victoria Kellogg MBE is an English badminton player. She first played badminton at the age of 10.-Career:Her first representative match for England was against China at the World Championships 1997 in Scotland...

  Robert Mateusiak
Robert Mateusiak
Robert Bogumił Mateusiak is a male badminton player from Poland.-Career:Mateusiak competed in badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics, both times in men's doubles with partner Michał Łogosz....

 & Nadiezda Kostiuczyk
Nadiezda Kostiuczyk
Nadieżda Kostiuczyk is a female badminton player from Poland.-Career:Kostiuczyk played the 2007 BWF World Championships in mixed doubles with Robert Mateusiak. They were defeated in quarterfinals by Zheng Bo and Gao Ling of China, 16-21, 17-21. She also played women's doubles with Kamila Augustyn...

16–21, 22–20, 21–15

Thailand Open
Thailand Open (badminton)
The Thailand Open in badminton is an open international championships held in Thailand since 1984. It was halted in 1986, 1998, 2002 and 2010.-Past winners:-External links:***...

  • Nimibutr National Stadium, Bangkok
    Bangkok
    Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

    , Thailand
    Thailand
    Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

     (June 24–29)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Lin Dan
Lin Dan
Lin Dan is a professional badminton player from China. He is a four-time world champion and the reigning Olympic champion. Widely considered to be the greatest badminton player of all time, by the age of 27 Lin had completed the "Super Grand Slam", having won all major titles in world badminton:...

  Boonsak Ponsana
Boonsak Ponsana
Boonsak Ponsana is a male badminton player from Thailand.His younger sister Salakjit Ponsana is also part of the Thailand badminton team.-Career:...

17–21, 21–15, 21–13
Women's singles   Xie Xingfang
Xie Xingfang
Xie Xingfang is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China who has twice won women's singles at the BWF World Championships....

  Lu Lan
Lu Lan
Lu Lan is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:In 2004 she won the Polish Open. In 2006 she won the Korea Open and finished the year in the 5th position in the BWF World Ranking....

26–24, 21–7
Men's doubles   Cai Yun
Cai Yun
Cai Yun is a male badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:Combining Cai Yun's impressive speed with his regular partner Fu Haifeng's impressive power, Cai and Fu have been one of the world's leading men's doubles teams since 2004. They have won numerous top tier events on the...

 & Fu Haifeng
Fu Haifeng
Fu Haifeng born August 23, 1983 in Jieyang, Guangdong, China) is a Chinese badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:Combining Fu Haifeng's impressive power with his regular partner Cai Yun's impressive speed, Cai and Fu have been one of the world's leading men's doubles teams...

  Guo Zhendong
Guo Zhendong
Guo Zhendong is a male badminton player from China. , he was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world.-Career:...

 & Xie Zhongbo
Xie Zhongbo
-Career:A doubles specialist on the world circuit, Xie has regularly partnered Guo Zhendong in men's doubles and Zhang Yawen in mixed doubles over the past several years. Xie and Guo have won the Polish Open , the China Masters , and the India Open together...

21–17, Retired
Women's doubles   Yang Wei
Yang Wei (badminton)
Yang Wei is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China. Yang grew up in Guangdong.-Career:A woman's doubles specialist, Yang has won some forty international titles, most of them in the sport's top tier events, since 1998...

 & Zhang Jiewen
Zhang Jiewen
Zhang Jiewen is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:One of China's most successful women's doubles specialists, Zhang has won some thirty international titles, the vast majority of them in partnership with Yang Wei, during the first decade of the 21st century...

  Chin Eei Hui
Chin Eei Hui
Chin Eei Hui is a female badminton player from Malaysia in the women's doubles event.-Career:Eei Hui competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Wong Pei Tty...

 & Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty
Wong Pei Tty is a female badminton player from Malaysia.Wong competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Chin Eei Hui...

15–21, 21–13, 21–13
Mixed doubles   Xie Zhongbo
Xie Zhongbo
-Career:A doubles specialist on the world circuit, Xie has regularly partnered Guo Zhendong in men's doubles and Zhang Yawen in mixed doubles over the past several years. Xie and Guo have won the Polish Open , the China Masters , and the India Open together...

 & Zhang Yawen
Zhang Yawen
Zhang Yawen is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:Zhang has specialized in women's doubles and mixed doubles, earning numerous international titles in both events...

  He Hanbin
He Hanbin
He Hanbin is a male badminton player from China.- Career :A doubles specialist, He won men's doubles at the Austrian International tourney with Guo Zhendong in 2007. Most of his accomplishments, however, have come in mixed doubles with Yu Yang...

 & Yu Yang
Yu Yang (badminton)
Yu Yang is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A doubles specialist, Yu and her regular partner Du Jing have steadily emerged as one of the world's elite women's doubles teams since 2004. They confirmed this status by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in...

23–25, 21–10, 23–21

Chinese Taipei Open
Chinese Taipei Open (badminton)
The Chinese Taipei Open in badminton is an open international championships held in Taiwan since the 1970s,but they took place only in irregular periods. Since 1997 they are regularly held, unless in the 2001 edition, due to the economic crisis in Asia....

  • Taipei County Shinjuang Stadium, Taipei
    Taipei
    Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...

    , Republic of China
    Republic of China
    The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

     (Taiwan
    Taiwan
    Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

    ) (September 9–14)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Simon Santoso
Simon Santoso
Simon Santoso is a male badminton player from Indonesia.-Career:When he was young, he joined the Tangkas Jakarta badminton club before joining the Indonesian National team PBSI. In 2005 he won the Robot HCMC Vietnam Satellite and the silver medal at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games...

  Roslin Hashim
Roslin Hashim
Muhammad Roslin Hashim is a male badminton player from Malaysia.He is one of the successful Malaysian badminton players...

21–18, 13–21, 21–10
Women's singles   Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal is an Indian Khel Ratna badminton player currently ranked 4 in the world by Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships...

  Lydia Cheah 21–8, 21–19
Men's doubles   Mathias Boe
Mathias Boe
-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles, with Carsten Mogensen.In 2010, Mogensen and Boe won the titles at the Denmark Super Series, French Super Series and the Super Series Final held in Taipei. One year later Mogensen and Boe won the All...

 & Carsten Mogensen
Carsten Mogensen
-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles, with Mathias Boe. Two years later he won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in mixed doubles with Helle Nielsen....

  Candra Wijaya
Candra Wijaya
-Career:Wijaya is a doubles specialist who, as of 2008, has rated among the best men's doubles players in the world for over a decade. Noted for his ability in all phases of the doubles game, he has reached the final of the BWF World Championships three times with countryman Sigit Budiarto. They...

 &   Tony Gunawan
Tony Gunawan
Tony Gunawan is an Indonesian born badminton player of Chinese descent.-Career:Gunawan is a former Olympic gold medalist and world champion for Indonesia, and now represents the United States. He is regarded by many, including his peers, as one of the greatest doubles players badminton's history...

22–20, 21–14
Women's doubles   Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu-Chin is a female badminton player from Republic of China.Chien competed for Republic of China as Chinese Taipei in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Cheng Wen-Hsing...

 & Cheng Wen-Hsing
Cheng Wen-Hsing
Cheng Wen-Hsing is a female badminton player from Taiwan.Cheng competed for the Republic of China in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Chien Yu Chin...

  Rani Mundiasti
Rani Mundiasti
Rani Mundiasti is a female badminton player from Indonesia.- Career :She won women's doubles at the 2006 Dutch Open with Endang Nursugianti. In 2008 Mundiasti was runner-up in women's doubles with Jo Novita at the Denmark Super Series, losing to the Malaysian pair of Chin Eei Hui and Wong Pei Tty...

 & Jo Novita
Jo Novita
Jo Novita is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Novita competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Lita Nurlita. They had a bye in the first round and were defeated by Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China in the round of 16...

21–16, 21–17
Mixed doubles   Devin Lahardi & Lita Nurlita
Lita Nurlita
Lita Nurlita is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Nurlita competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Jo Novita...

  Fang Chieh-Min & Cheng Wen-Hsing
Cheng Wen-Hsing
Cheng Wen-Hsing is a female badminton player from Taiwan.Cheng competed for the Republic of China in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Chien Yu Chin...

14–21, 21–11, 21–19

Macau Open
Macau Open Badminton Championships
The Macau Open Badminton Championships is an open international championship in badminton held in Macau since 2006.In 2007 the tournament was categorised by the Badminton World Federation as Grand Prix Gold level event, which carried a total prize money of US$120,000.-Previous winners:-External...

  • Venetian Arena
    Venetian Arena
    The CotaiArena is an indoor sports arena, located on the premises of the The Venetian Macao, on the Cotai Strip, in Macau. It has a seating capacity of 15,000 and opened in 2007....

    , Macau
    Macau
    Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

     (September 30–October 5)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Taufik Hidayat
Taufik Hidayat
Taufik Hidayat is an Indonesian badminton player. He is a former World and Olympic champion in men's singles...

  Lee Chong Wei
Lee Chong Wei
Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam. Lee won the silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games...

21–19, 21–15
Women's singles   Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi is a Chinese female badminton player. During much of her career she represented the People's Republic of China, but since 2007 she has represented Hong Kong which has a sports program and teams independent from those of the mainland. In 2010 she received a 2 year ban, for failing a drugs...

  Julia Wong Pei Xian
Julia Wong Pei Xian
-Career:Wong played the 2007 BWF World Championships in women's singles, and was defeated in the second round by Maria Kristin Yulianti, of Indonesia, 16-21, 21-14, 21-18.-2008:...

21–13, 21–19
Men's doubles   Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat
Koo Kien Keat is a professional badminton player from Malaysia. Besides being a men's doubles player, he also represents Malaysia in the mixed doubles event. He started his career at seventeen years of age and has won the Asian Junior title. He played in the Thomas Cup 2004 with Chan Chong Ming....

 & Tan Boon Heong
Tan Boon Heong
Tan Boon Heong is a professional badminton player representing Malaysia in the men's doubles event. He and his current doubles partner—Koo Kien Keat—are ranked 3rd in men's doubles in the world.-Career:...

  Fang Chieh-Min & Lee Sheng-Mu
Lee Sheng-mu
-Career:Lee Sheng-mu's elite career began in the 2009 badminton season when he reached the semifinals of the 2009 Korea Open Super Series in Men's Doubles with Fang Chieh-min. The pair continued their success in 2010 with victories at the 2010 Singapore Super Series and the 2010 Indonesia Super...

21–16, 21–18
Women's doubles   Cheng Shu & Zhao Yunlei
Zhao Yunlei
Zhao Yunlei is a women's and mixed doubles badminton player from China.-Career:Zhao played with Tian Qing in the women's doubles and with Zhang Nan in the mixed doubles. Currently, she and Zhang Nan are ranked world number one...

  Ma Jin
Ma Jin
Ma Jin is a female badminton player from China....

 & Wang Xiaoli
Wang Xiaoli
Wang Xiaoli is an internationally elite badminton player from China.Wang Xiaoli began her international career in 2009 when she paired with Tao Jiaming in Mixed Doubles and with Ma Jin in Women's Doubles...

21–15, 21–18
Mixed doubles   Xu Chen
Xu Chen
Xu Chen is a male badminton player from China. , he was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world.-References:**...

 & Zhao Yunlei
Zhao Yunlei
Zhao Yunlei is a women's and mixed doubles badminton player from China.-Career:Zhao played with Tian Qing in the women's doubles and with Zhang Nan in the mixed doubles. Currently, she and Zhang Nan are ranked world number one...

  Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama
Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama
-Career:Wiratama played at the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's doubles with Albertus Susanto Njoto. They were seeded #12 and were defeated in the second round by Simon Mollyhus and Anders Kristiansen, of Denmark, 20-22, 21-19, 21-17....

 & Chau Hoi Wah
21–15, 21–16

Dutch Open
Dutch Open (badminton)
The Dutch Open is an annual badminton tournament held in the Netherlands since 1932 and currently organized by Nederlandse Badminton Bond . It is a part of the European Badminton Circuit.-Past winners:-External links:**...

  • Top Sport Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     (October 14–19)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Andre Tedjono   Chetan Anand
Chetan Anand (badminton)
Chetan Anand Buradagunta is a badminton player from India. He is considered to be one of the best male badminton players in the country after Prakash Padukone, Syed Modi and Pullela Gopichand. Chetan Anand was a four time National Badminton champion in 2003, 2006, 2007 & 2009 but his world ranking...

21–15, 11–21, 21–19
Women's singles   Yao Jie   Linda Zechiri 21–14, 21–13
Men's doubles   Fran Kurniawan & Rendra Wijaya   Rupesh Kumar
Rupesh Kumar
Rupesh Kumar is an Indian badminton player from Sirpur, Andhra Pradesh. He won the Silver Medal in Mixed team event in 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, 2010. He, along with his doubles prtner Sanave Thomas, won Bitburger Open in Germany on 13 September 2010.-References:...

 & Sanave Thomas
21–18, 21–18
Women's doubles   Lena Frier Kristiansen
Lena Frier Kristiansen
Lena Frier Kristiansen is a female badminton player from Denmark.-Career:She won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in women's doubles, with Kamilla Rytter Juhl.-External links:*...

 & Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl
Kamilla Rytter Juhl is a female badminton player from Denmark.Juhl won the 2006 European Badminton Championships in mixed doubles with partner Thomas Laybourn, and a bronze medal in women's doubles with Lena Frier Kristiansen...

  Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Shendy competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Meiliana Jauhari. Their best result were in the Indonesia and Malaysia...

 & Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Meiliana competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Shendy Puspa Irawati.Now, Meiliana played with Greysia Polii in the...

21–16, 25–23
Mixed doubles   Joachim Fisher Nielsen & Christinna Pedersen
Christinna Pedersen
Christinna Pedersen is an internationally elite badminton player from Ålborg, Denmark.Christinna Pedersen is a right-handed Doubles specialist who has gained the most amount of success in Mixed Doubles. Pairing with Joachim Fischer Nielsen she reached the semifinals of the 2009 Hyderabad World...

  Fran Kurniawan & Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Shendy competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Meiliana Jauhari. Their best result were in the Indonesia and Malaysia...

21–17, 21–9

German Open
German Open (badminton)
The German Open is an annual badminton tournament held in Germany since 1955 and organized by German Badminton Association or Deustcher Badminton Verband ....

  • RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sporthalle, Mülheim
    Mülheim
    Mülheim an der Ruhr, also called "City on the River", is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen...

    , Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     (February 26–March 2)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Lee Hyun-il
Lee Hyun-il
Lee Hyun-il is a male badminton player from South Korea.- 2002 Asian Games:Lee competed in the 2002 Asian Games where he showed signs of promise as an ace singles player for Team Korea...

  Sho Sasaki
Sho Sasaki
-Career:In 2007 he won the Japanese National Championships in men's singles, and 7 international tournaments: the Bahrain Satellite Badminton Tournament, the Banuinvest International Championships, the Osaka International Challenge, the Israel International, the Mauritius International, the...

22–20, 21–5
Women's singles   Jun Jae-youn
Jun Jae-youn
Jun Jae-youn is a female badminton player from South Korea.Jun played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics for Korea, defeating Charmaine Reid of Canada in the first round but losing to Cheng Shao-chieh of Chinese Taipei in the round of 16.-External links:*...

  Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan is a professional female badminton player from China and the reigning women's singles world champion. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was selected for the junior team in 2004, and after being promoted to the senior team in 2006 she...

25–23, 21–10
Men's doubles   Lee Jae-jin
Lee Jae-jin
Lee Jae-jin is a male badminton player from South Korea.-Career:Lee played at the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's doubles with Hwang Ji-man...

 & Hwang Ji-man
Hwang Ji-man
Hwang Ji-man is a male badminton player from South Korea.-Career:Hwang played at the 2007 BWF World Championships in men's doubles with Lee Jae-jin...

  Jung Jae-sung
Jung Jae-sung
Jung Jae-sung is a male badminton player from South Korea.Jung started playing badminton at 7, at his local elementary school. He entered the South Korea national badminton team in 2001...

 & Lee Yong-dae
Lee Yong-dae
Lee Yong-dae is a male badminton player from South Korea. He is considered by many to be a great talent and already a wonderful doubles player...

21–13, 21–19
Women's doubles   Lee Kyung-won
Lee Kyung-won
Lee Kyung-won is a female badminton player from South Korea.Lee competed for Korea in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Ra Kyung-min. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Pernille Harder and Mette Schjoldager of Denmark in the second...

 & Lee Hyo-jung
Lee Hyo-jung
Lee Hyo-jung is a female badminton player from South Korea.She won the gold medal in badminton mixed doubles at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics with her partner, Lee Yong-dae...

  Miyuki Maeda
Miyuki Maeda
is a female international badminton player.-Career:Maeda's first major success was at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. With her women's doubles partner Satoko Suetsuna they finished fourth, the best performance to date by Japanese badminton players at the Olympics. The two have continued to compete...

 & Satoko Suetsuna
21–17, 21–16
Mixed doubles   Lee Yong-dae
Lee Yong-dae
Lee Yong-dae is a male badminton player from South Korea. He is considered by many to be a great talent and already a wonderful doubles player...

 & Lee Hyo-jung
Lee Hyo-jung
Lee Hyo-jung is a female badminton player from South Korea.She won the gold medal in badminton mixed doubles at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics with her partner, Lee Yong-dae...

  He Hanbin
He Hanbin
He Hanbin is a male badminton player from China.- Career :A doubles specialist, He won men's doubles at the Austrian International tourney with Guo Zhendong in 2007. Most of his accomplishments, however, have come in mixed doubles with Yu Yang...

 & Yu Yang
Yu Yang (badminton)
Yu Yang is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A doubles specialist, Yu and her regular partner Du Jing have steadily emerged as one of the world's elite women's doubles teams since 2004. They confirmed this status by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in...

9–21, 27–25, 21–18

U.S. Open
U.S. Open Badminton Championships
The U.S. Open Badminton Championships is an annual badminton tournament first held in 1954 when the American Badminton Association opened the U.S. National Badminton Championships to foreign competition. For the full list of winners see List of U.S. Open Badminton champions.-21st century:-External...

  • Orange County Badminton Club, Orange
    Orange, California
    Southern California is well-known for year-round pleasant weather: - On average, the warmest month is August. - The highest recorded temperature was in 1985. - On average, the coolest month is December. - The lowest recorded temperature was in 1950...

    , California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

    , United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     (July 8–13)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Andrew Dabeka
Andrew Dabeka
Andrew Dabeka is a male badminton player from Canada.- Career :Dabeka won 2008 US Open Men's Singles Champion by defeating Martin Bille Larsen: 21-14 and 21-9 and is, as of 2008, ranked 40th in the world. He was the winner of the 2007 Miami international, 2005 Pan American and 2003 Southern Pan Am...

  Martin Bille Larsen 21–14, 21–9
Women's singles   Lili Zhou
Lili Zhou
Lili Zhou is a female badminton player from the United States of America.From 2004 to 2006 she won three times the women's singles at the Boston Badminton Open....

  Chloe Magee 23–21, 21–16
Men's doubles   Howard Bach
Howard Bach
Howard Bach is a Vietnamese-American male badminton player from the United States. He was the 2005 world champion in men's doubles with Tony Gunawan.-Early life:He was born in South Vietnam on 22 February 1979, Howard Bach came to the U.S...

 & Khan Malaythong
Khan Malaythong
Khan "Bob" Malaythong is an American badminton player. He qualified for the U.S. badminton team as a doubles competitor at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

  Halim Haryanto Ho & Raju Rai 21–14, 21–19
Women's doubles   Chang Li-Ying & Hung Shih-Chieh   Tsai Pei-Ling & Yang Chia-Chen 21–19, 21–14
Mixed doubles   Halim Haryanto Ho & Peng Yun
Peng Yun
Yun "Grace" Peng is a former international badminton player for China, now representing the United States.-Career:Yun Peng began her career with the U.S. on September 25, 2004.In the OCBC/YONEX US OPEN 2004...

  Mike Beres
Mike Beres
Mike Beres is a male badminton player from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the men's doubles competition at the 1999 Pan American Games. He was born in Brantford, Ontario....

 & Valerie Loker
21–13, 21–16

Bitburger Open
Bitburger Open
The Bitburger Open is an international badminton tournament held in Germany since 1988. It is sponsored by the German pilsner beer brewery Bitburger.-Previous winners:...

  • 'Saarlandhalle
    Saarlandhalle
    Saarlandhalle is a building in Saarbrücken, Germany. It has a capacity of around 6,500 people. It has hosted concerts by many famous artists, including a-ha, AC/DC, Chris De Burgh, Depeche Mode, Bob Dylan, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Sting and Uriah Heep, among others. Since the introduction of the new...

    , Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

    , Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     (September 30–October 5)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Chetan Anand
Chetan Anand (badminton)
Chetan Anand Buradagunta is a badminton player from India. He is considered to be one of the best male badminton players in the country after Prakash Padukone, Syed Modi and Pullela Gopichand. Chetan Anand was a four time National Badminton champion in 2003, 2006, 2007 & 2009 but his world ranking...

  Arvind Bhat
Arvind Bhat
-Career:Arvind Bhat won the national championships in India in the year 2008. On the international level he won the Scottish Open 2004 and the Czech International 2007. With the 1. BC Bischmisheim he reached gold in the German team championships 2008.-Results:...

23–25, 24–22, 23–21
Women's singles   Maria Febe Kusumastuti
Maria Febe Kusumastuti
Maria Febe Kusumastuti is a female badminton player from Indonesia.-Career:In 2008 she won women's singles at the Bitburger Open...

  Aditi Mutatkar
Aditi Mutatkar
Aditi Mutatkar is an Indian badminton player from Pune, Maharashtra. She won the Silver Medal in Mixed team event in 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, 2010. Previously she was the winner of Bangalore open badminton championship and also the runner up of Pune all India senior tournament...

22–24, 21–8, 23–21
Men's doubles   Mathias Boe
Mathias Boe
-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles, with Carsten Mogensen.In 2010, Mogensen and Boe won the titles at the Denmark Super Series, French Super Series and the Super Series Final held in Taipei. One year later Mogensen and Boe won the All...

 & Carsten Mogensen
Carsten Mogensen
-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles, with Mathias Boe. Two years later he won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in mixed doubles with Helle Nielsen....

  Kristof Hopp
Kristof Hopp
Kristof Hopp is a male badminton player from Germany.-Career:He won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Ingo Kindervater.-References:...

 & Johannes Schöttler
21–11, 21–15
Women's doubles   Helle Nielsen
Helle Nielsen
-Career:She won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in mixed doubles with Carsten Mogensen.-External links:*...

 & Marie Roepke
  Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Shendy competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Meiliana Jauhari. Their best result were in the Indonesia and Malaysia...

 & Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Meiliana competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Shendy Puspa Irawati.Now, Meiliana played with Greysia Polii in the...

21–15, 21–18
Mixed doubles   Diju Valiyaveetil
Valiyaveetil Diju
Valiyaveetil Diju is an Indian badminton player from Kozhikode, Kerala. He along with partner Jwala Gutta is the current National mixed-doubles champions and the pair is currently ranked 7th in the world by Badminton World Federation.-Career:Diju started his career by representing Calicut...

 & Jwala Gutta
  Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Joachim Fischer Nielsen
-Major achievements:...

 & Christinna Pedersen
Christinna Pedersen
Christinna Pedersen is an internationally elite badminton player from Ålborg, Denmark.Christinna Pedersen is a right-handed Doubles specialist who has gained the most amount of success in Mixed Doubles. Pairing with Joachim Fischer Nielsen she reached the semifinals of the 2009 Hyderabad World...

8–21, 21–17, 22–20

Pan Am Badminton Championships
Pan Am Badminton Championships
The Pan Am Badminton Championships is a tournament organized since 1977 by the Badminton Pan Am to crown the best badminton players in the Americas.-Individual:-Team:-External links:*...

  • Club de Regatas, Lima
    Lima
    Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

    , Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

     (October 3–5)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   David Snider   Stephan Wojcikiewicz
Stephan Wojcikiewicz
Stephan Wojcikiewicz is a male badminton player from Canada.-Career:Wojcikiewicz won the 2007 Pan American Badminton Championship, defeating Andrew Dabeka: 21-17, 22-20. He won the Canadian National Championship in 2004 and was runner-up in 2008. He also played on Canada’s Thomas Cup team in...

21–7, 23–21
Women's singles   Claudia Rivero
Claudia Rivero
Claudia Rivero Modenesi is a Peruvian professional badminton player.-Other:*2006 - Southern PanAm International: Women's singles *2006 - Peru International: Women's singles...

  Christina Aicardi 21–14, 21–16
Men's doubles   Toby Ng & William Milroy
William Milroy
William Milroy is a professional badminton player. A resident of Edmonton, he has been a Men’s Doubles Winner in the Canadian National Badminton Championships in each year since 2004.-References:...

  Rodolfo Ramirez & Kevin Cordon
Kevin Cordón
Kevin Haroldo Cordón Buezo is a Guatemalan badminton player.Born in La Unión, Zacapa, Cordón was named after former England international footballer Kevin Keegan, of whom his father was a fan...

21–16, 21–9
Women's doubles   Christina Aicardi & Claudia Rivero
Claudia Rivero
Claudia Rivero Modenesi is a Peruvian professional badminton player.-Other:*2006 - Southern PanAm International: Women's singles *2006 - Peru International: Women's singles...

  Fiona McKee & Valerie Loker 21–19, 21–15
Mixed doubles   William McRoy & Fiona McKee   Toby Ng & Valerie Loker 21–12, 16–21, 21–18

Bulgaria Open

  • Sofia Hall, Sofia
    Sofia
    Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

    , Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

     (October 7–12)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Joachim Persson
Joachim Persson
Joachim Persson is a badminton player from Denmark. Persson is currently the 3rd highest ranked singles player in Denmark. He is set to take over Kenneth Jonassen as Denmark's second singles after Kenneth's retirement in the months to come....

  Hsieh Yu-Hsin 17–21, 21–19, 21–19
Women's singles   Petya Nedelcheva
Petya Nedelcheva
Petya Nedelcheva is a female Bulgarian badminton player. She was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian National Badminton Championships she won more than 20 titles.-2004 Summer Olympics:...

  Rosaria Yusfin Pungkasari 21–14, 21–12
Men's doubles   Mathias Boe
Mathias Boe
-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles, with Carsten Mogensen.In 2010, Mogensen and Boe won the titles at the Denmark Super Series, French Super Series and the Super Series Final held in Taipei. One year later Mogensen and Boe won the All...

 & Carsten Mogensen
Carsten Mogensen
-Career:He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles, with Mathias Boe. Two years later he won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in mixed doubles with Helle Nielsen....

  Fran Kurniawan & Wijaya Rendra 25–23, 21–16
Women's doubles   Jwala Gutta & Shruti Kurian   Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Shendy competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Meiliana Jauhari. Their best result were in the Indonesia and Malaysia...

 & Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Meiliana competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Shendy Puspa Irawati.Now, Meiliana played with Greysia Polii in the...

21–11, 21–19
Mixed doubles   Diju V.
Valiyaveetil Diju
Valiyaveetil Diju is an Indian badminton player from Kozhikode, Kerala. He along with partner Jwala Gutta is the current National mixed-doubles champions and the pair is currently ranked 7th in the world by Badminton World Federation.-Career:Diju started his career by representing Calicut...

 & Jwala Gutta
  Fran Kurniawan & Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Shendy competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Meiliana Jauhari. Their best result were in the Indonesia and Malaysia...

15–21, 21–18, 21–19

Russian Open
Russian Open (badminton)
The Russian Open in badminton is an international open held in Russia since 1993. This tournament is the continuation of the USSR International.In 2007 it became a BWF Grand Prix Gold.-Previous winners:...

  • USC Druzhba, Moscow
    Moscow
    Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

     (November 4–9)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Dicky Palyama
Dicky Palyama
Dicky Palyama is a male badminton player from the Netherlands.-Career:In 2002 he won the Spanish International Badminton Tournament and in 2003 the Bitburger Open International.-2007 European Cup:...

  Stanislav Pukhov 21–12, 21–18
Women's singles   Ella Diehl   Larisa Griga
Larisa Griga
Larisa Griga is a female badminton player from Ukraine.She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim and reached the second round ....

21–10, 17–21, 21–12
Men's doubles   Vitalij Durkin & Alexandr Nikolaenko   Vladimir Ivanov & Ivan Sozonov 21–11, 21–15
Women's doubles   Valeri Sorokina & Nina Vislova
Nina Vislova
-Career:Vislova won four medals at the European Junior Badminton Championships, two gold medals in women's doubles , a silver medal in mixed doubles , and a bronze medal also in mixed doubles . Nina also won at the 2006 US Open in women's doubles and mixed. She won the bronze medal at the 2008...

  Petya Nedelcheva
Petya Nedelcheva
Petya Nedelcheva is a female Bulgarian badminton player. She was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian National Badminton Championships she won more than 20 titles.-2004 Summer Olympics:...

 & Dimitria Popstoykova
21–18, 21–8
Mixed doubles   Alexandr Nikolaenko & Valeri Sorokina   Vitalij Durkin & Nina Vislova
Nina Vislova
-Career:Vislova won four medals at the European Junior Badminton Championships, two gold medals in women's doubles , a silver medal in mixed doubles , and a bronze medal also in mixed doubles . Nina also won at the 2006 US Open in women's doubles and mixed. She won the bronze medal at the 2008...

21–19, 21–19

New Zealand Open
New Zealand Open (badminton)
The New Zealand Open in badminton is an international tournament held in New Zealand.-Previous winners:...

  • North Shore Events Centre
    North Shore Events Centre
    North Shore Events Centre is an indoor arena, located in Auckland, New Zealand. The arena opened in 1992 and has a capacity of 4,500 people.The Centre primarily hosts basketball games and is the home arena of the New Zealand Breakers who play in the Australasian NBL. It also hosts concerts and...

    , Auckland
    Auckland
    The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

    , New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     (November 11–16)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Lee Tsuen Seng
Lee Tsuen Seng
Lee Tsuen Seng is a professional badminton player from Malaysia.In 2001 he won the Dutch Open and in 2006 the New Zealand Open.-Achievements:*2002 - Rutac Holland Open - Runner-up*2003 - Yonex All England Open - Quarterfinalist...

  Sairul Amar Ayob
Sairul Amar Ayob
Sairul Amar Ayob is a professional badminton player from Malaysia.-Career:In 2002 he won the Australian International, in 2004 the Auckland International and the Western Australian International, in 2005 the New Zealand Open, and in 2006 the Dutch Open.- External links :*...

24–22, 21–17
Women's singles   Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi is a Chinese female badminton player. During much of her career she represented the People's Republic of China, but since 2007 she has represented Hong Kong which has a sports program and teams independent from those of the mainland. In 2010 she received a 2 year ban, for failing a drugs...

  Rachel Hindley
Rachel Hindley
Rachel Hindley is a female badminton player of New Zealand.She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she lost in the first round to Nathalie Descamps of Belgium 4-11, 11-9, 9-11. She reached the second round of the women's doubles event . She...

21–10, 21–15
Men's doubles   Chen Hung-Ling & Lin Yu-Lang   Fernando Kurniawan & Lingga Lie 22–20, 21–10
Women's doubles   Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu-Chin is a female badminton player from Republic of China.Chien competed for Republic of China as Chinese Taipei in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Cheng Wen-Hsing...

 & Chou Chia-Chi
  Haw Chiou Hwee & Lim Pek Siah 21–8, 21–15
Mixed doubles   Chen Hung-Ling & Chou Chia-Chi   Hsieh Yu-Hsin & Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu Chin
Chien Yu-Chin is a female badminton player from Republic of China.Chien competed for Republic of China as Chinese Taipei in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Cheng Wen-Hsing...

21–18, 22–20

Vietnam Open
Vietnam Open (badminton)
The Vietnam Open in badminton is an international open held in Vietnam since 1996.In its first edition, the later Asia masters Lee Wan Wah and Choong Tan Fook fought for their first international title. After another edition in 1997, the championships were halted during 8 years, they were held...

  • Phan Dinh Phung Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City
    Ho Chi Minh City
    Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...

    , Vietnam
    Vietnam
    Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

     (December 2–7)

Category Winners Runners-up Score
Men's singles   Nguyen Tien Minh   Chan Yan Kit
Chan Yan Kit
Chan Yan Kit is a professional badminton player from Hong Kong.-Career:He competed at the 2006 IBF World Championships in men's singles and was defeated in first round by Eric Pang. The next year he reached quarterfinals at the 2007 Badminton Asia Championships, losing against Yeoh Kay Bin 13-21,...

24–22, 21–18
Women's singles   Zhang Beiwen   Xing Aiying 11–21, 21–19, 22–20
Men's doubles   Choong Tan Fook
Choong Tan Fook
Choong Tan Fook is a male badminton player from Malaysia, who competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with partner Lee Wan Wah. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Pramote Teerawiwatana and Tesana Panvisvas of Thailand in the second...

 & Lee Wan Wah
Lee Wan Wah
Lee Wan Wah is a male badminton men doubles player from Malaysia. His regular doubles' partner is Choong Tan Fook.Lee competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's doubles with Choong Tan Fook. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Pramote Teerawiwatana and Tesana Panvisvas...

  Fran Kurniawan & Wijaya Rendra 21–14, 21–10
Women's doubles   Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Shendy competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Meiliana Jauhari. Their best result were in the Indonesia and Malaysia...

 & Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari
Meiliana Jauhari is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Meiliana competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Shendy Puspa Irawati.Now, Meiliana played with Greysia Polii in the...

  Shinta Mulia Sari & Yao Lei 21–16, 19–21, 21–11
Mixed doubles   Tantowi Ahmad & Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati
Shendy Puspa Irawati is a female badminton player from Indonesia.Shendy competed women's doubles in BWF Super Series at the 2008 Indonesia Super Series, 2009 Malaysia Super Series, and 2009 Korea Super Series with her partner, Meiliana Jauhari. Their best result were in the Indonesia and Malaysia...

  Riky Widianto & Vanessa Neo Yu Yan 21–17, 21–9
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