Syed Modi International Badminton Championships

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

Syed Modi International

Official website
Founded	2009; 14 years ago (2009)
Editions	11 (2022)
Location	Lucknow (2022) India
Venue	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium (2022)
Prize money	USD$150,000 (2022)
Men's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Wang Tzu-wei (singles) Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun (doubles)
Most singles titles	2 Kashyap Parupalli Sameer Verma
Most doubles titles	2 Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen
Women's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	P. V. Sindhu (singles) Anna Cheong Teoh Mei Xing (doubles)
Most singles titles	3 Saina Nehwal
Most doubles titles	2 Jung Kyung-eun
Mixed doubles
Draw	32
Current champions	Ishaan Bhatnagar Tanisha Crasto
Most titles (male)	1
Most titles (female)	1
Super 300
German Open Hylo Open Korea Masters Macau Open (2018–2019) New Zealand Open Orléans Masters Spain Masters Swiss Open Syed Modi International Taipei Open Thailand Masters U.S. Open
Last completed
2022 Syed Modi International

This tournament was introduced to the badminton circuit as a BWF Grand Prix event in 2009.^[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 Grand Prix Gold event.^[4] Badminton World Federation launched a new event structure in 2017. This tournament was later included as a BWF World Tour Super 300 event which began to be competed in 2018.^[5]

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.^[6]

From its inauguration till 2003, it remained a national-level tournament.^[7][8] In 2004, it was organized as an International event for the first time, which saw some low-key foreign participation.^[9][10]

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.^[11][12][13]

Winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles	Ref
2009	Chetan Anand	Saina Nehwal	Fauzi Adnan   Trikusuma Wardhana	Misaki Matsutomo   Ayaka Takahashi	Arun Vishnu   Aparna Balan	^[14]
2010	Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka	Zhou Hui	Mohammad Ahsan   Bona Septano	Tang Jinhua   Xia Huan	Liu Peixuan   Tang Jinhua	^[15]
2011	Taufik Hidayat	Ratchanok Intanon	Naoki Kawamae   Shoji Sato	Shinta Mulia Sari   Yao Lei	Sudket Prapakamol   Saralee Thungthongkam	^[16]
2012	Parupalli Kashyap	Lindaweni Fanetri	Ko Sung-hyun   Lee Yong-dae	Savitree Amitrapai   Sapsiree Taerattanachai	Fran Kurniawan   Shendy Puspa Irawati	^[17]
2013	No competition
2014	Xue Song	Saina Nehwal	Li Junhui   Liu Yuchen	Chen Qingchen   Jia Yifan	Wang Yilyu   Huang Yaqiong	^[18]
2015	Parupalli Kashyap		Mathias Boe   Carsten Mogensen	Amelia Alicia Anscelly   Soong Fie Cho	Riky Widianto   Richi Puspita Dili	^[19]
2016	Srikanth Kidambi	Sung Ji-hyun	Goh V Shem   Tan Wee Kiong	Jung Kyung-eun   Shin Seung-chan	Praveen Jordan   Debby Susanto	^[20]
2017	Sameer Verma	P. V. Sindhu	Mathias Boe   Carsten Mogensen	Christinna Pedersen   Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Pranaav Jerry Chopra   N. Sikki Reddy	^[21]
2018	Sameer Verma	Han Yue	Fajar Alfian   Muhammad Rian Ardianto	Chow Mei Kuan   Lee Meng Yean	Ou Xuanyi   Feng Xueying	^[22]
2019	Wang Tzu-wei	Carolina Marín	He Jiting   Tan Qiang	Baek Ha-na   Jung Kyung-eun	Rodion Alimov   Alina Davletova	^[23]
2020	Cancelled^[note 1]
2021	Cancelled^[note 2]
2022	Not awarded	P. V. Sindhu	Man Wei Chong   Tee Kai Wun	Anna Cheong   Teoh Mei Xing	Ishaan Bhatnagar   Tanisha Crasto	^[24]

1. This tournament, originally to be played from 17 to 22 November, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.
2. This tournament, originally to be played from 12 to 17 October, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Performances by nation

As of the finals of the 2022 edition

Pos.	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	India	6	5			3	14
2	China	1	2	2	2	3	10
3	Indonesia	2	1	3		3	9
4	Malaysia			2	3		5
5	South Korea		1	1	2		4
6	Denmark			2	1		3
	Thailand		1		1	1	3
8	Japan			1	1		2
9	Chinese Taipei	1					1
	Spain		1				1
	Russia					1	1
	Singapore				1		1
Total		10	11	11	11	11	54

See also

• India Open
• Hyderabad Open (badminton)
• Odisha Open
• India International Challenge

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