Syed Modi International Badminton Championships

The Syed Modi International Badminton Championships is an international badminton tournament, which is held annually in India.

In 2009, it was turned into a BWF Grand Prix event.[1] Since then the tournament is being annually held in Lucknow at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, although it was temporarily shifted to Hyderabad in 2010.[2][3]

In 2011, it was upgraded to the BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament.[4]

History

The tournament was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association (UPBA) in 1991 as the 'Syed Modi Memorial Badminton Tournament' in memory of the Commonwealth Games champion Syed Modi.[5]

From its inauguration till 2003, it remained a national-level tournament.[6][7] In 2004, it was organized as an International event for the first time, which saw some low-key foreign participation.[8][9]

The tournament was halted from 2005 to 2008 due to a political impasse between the UPBA and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which ended with relocation of the Uttar Pradesh Badminton Academy.[10][11][12]

Winners
Year Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles
2009 Chetan Anand Saina Nehwal Fauzi Adnan
Trikusuma Wardhana		 Misaki Matsutomo
Ayaka Takahashi		 Arun Vishnu
Aparna Balan
2010[13] Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka Zhou Hui Mohammad Ahsan
Bona Septano		 Tang Jinhua
Xia Huan		 Liu Peixuan
Tang Jinhua
2011[14] Taufik Hidayat Ratchanok Intanon Naoki Kawamae
Shoji Sato		 Shinta Mulia Sari
Yao Lei		 Sudket Prapakamol
Saralee Thungthongkam
2012 Kashyap Parupalli Lindaweni Fanetri Ko Sung-hyun
Lee Yong-dae		 Savitree Amitrapai
Sapsiree Taerattanachai		 Fran Kurniawan
Shendy Puspa Irawati
2013 Not held
2014 Xue Song Saina Nehwal Li Junhui
Liu Yuchen		 Chen Qingchen
Jia Yifan		 Wang Yilu
Huang Yaqiong
2015 Kashyap Parupalli Mathias Boe
Carsten Mogensen		 Amelia Alicia Anscelly
Soong Fie Cho		 Riky Widianto
Richi Puspita Dili
2016 Srikanth Kidambi Sung Ji-hyun Goh V Shem
Tan Wee Kiong		 Jung Kyung-eun
Shin Seung-chan		 Praveen Jordan
Debby Susanto
2017 Sameer Verma P. V. Sindhu Mathias Boe
Carsten Mogensen		 Christinna Pedersen
Kamilla Rytter Juhl		 Pranaav Jerry Chopra
N. Sikki Reddy
2018 Sameer Verma Han Yue Fajar Alfian
Muhammad Rian Ardianto		 Chow Mei Kuan
Lee Meng Yean		 Ou Xuanyi
Feng Xueying
2019 Wang Tzu-wei Carolina Marín He Jiting
Tan Qiang		 Baek Ha-na
Jung Kyung-eun		 Rodion Alimov
Alina Davletova
2020 Cancelled[note 1]
  1. This tournament, originally to be played from 17 to 22 November, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.
  BWF World Tour Super 300
  Grand Prix Gold
  Grand Prix

Performances by nation (since 2009)
Pos. Nation MS WS MD WD XD Total
1 India 64212
2 China 1222310
3 Indonesia 21339
4 South Korea 1124
5 Denmark 213
 Malaysia 123
 Thailand 1113
8 Japan 112
9 Chinese Taipei 11
 Spain 11
 Russia 11
 Singapore 11
Total 10 10 9 10 10 49

See also

References
  1. "Syed Modi Memorial to turn GP event". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  2. "Lucknow loses Syed Modi badminton". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  3. "SYED MODI INTERNATIONAL BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS: Organization". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  4. "Taufiq Hidayat tames Sourabh Verma in final". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  5. "Lucknow loses Syed Modi badminton". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  6. "Chetan, Aparna land titles". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  7. "Anand, Popat win titles". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  8. "Contrasting wins for Gopichand, Aparna". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  9. "My win is not good for Indian badminton: Gopi". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  10. "Syed Modi badminton put off". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  11. "Modi meet cancelled". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  12. "UP restarts work on badminton academy". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 17 February 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  13. "India Grand Prix 2010: Matches". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  14. "Yonex - Sunrise Syed Modi Memorial India Open Grand Prix Gold: Matches". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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