Crown Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah; is the Crown Prince of Brunei Darussalam. He is in the first in line of succession to become the next Sultan of Brunei. He holds the position of senior minister of the Prime Minister's Office of Brunei, General of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces and Deputy Inspector General of the Royal Brunei Police Force.
The 2000 World Badminton Grand Prix was the 18th edition of the World Badminton Grand Prix finals. The tournament had originally been planned to take place in 2000, but was rescheduled for 2001. Finally, it was held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, from August 8 to August 12, 2001.
Adrianti Firdasari is a badminton player from Indonesia.
The 1999 World Badminton Grand Prix was the 17th edition of the World Badminton Grand Prix finals. It was held in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei from December 1 to December 5, 1999.
MASwings Sdn Bhd is a regional airline operating the Rural Air Services (RAS) in East Malaysia. It took over the RAS previously operated by FlyAsianXpress. The first flight was on 1 October 2007, which is also the anniversary of the founding of Malaysia Airlines in 1972. Its headquarters are located in MAS/MASwings Administration Building, Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah. Previously its head office was located in the Beautiful Jade Centre in Miri.
Bae Yeon-ju is an internationally elite badminton player from South Korea.
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian professional badminton player. She became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal, and one of the two Indian badminton players to ever win an Olympic medal – the other being Saina Nehwal. Sindhu won silver in Women's singles at Commonwealth Games 2018. She was also a silver medalist at the 2017 BWF World Championships and 2018 BWF World Championships consecutively. She was also a silver medalist in Asian Games 2018, which were held in Indonesia.
Michelle Li is a Canadian badminton player from Markham, Ontario. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. She has won gold in both singles and doubles at the Pan American Games, and won the singles and team event titles from the Pan Am Badminton Championships. As a competitor for Ontario, Li also won singles, doubles, and mixed team titles at the 2011 Canada Winter Games.
Sung Ji-hyun (성지현) born 29 July 1991 is a South Korean badminton player from Seoul. She competed at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games, also at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.
Sabrina Jaquet is a Swiss Badminton player. Jaquet competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She qualified for the Games by reaching the quarter finals of the 2012 European Championship in Karlskrona, Sweden. She also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nozomi Okuhara is a Japanese badminton player who is a singles specialist, well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She became the 2017 world champion in Glasgow, Scotland after defeating India's P. V. Sindhu in the finals.
Akane Yamaguchi is a Japanese badminton player who is a singles specialist. She is also part of Kumamoto Saishunkan Badminton team. Yamaguchi occupied the No. 1 BWF women's singles ranking in 19 April 2018, becoming the first Japanese player to achieve it.
Sapsiree Taerattanachai is a Thai badminton player who competed at the 2014 Asian Games and the 2016 Olympics. In 2009, she was a semi-finalist in girls' doubles at the World Junior Championships, and the following year, she was runner-up at the Asian Junior Championships. She won gold at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. In 2014, Sapsiree became the first player ever to become a Grand Prix Gold finalist in all three disciplines. She won the women's doubles title at the 2012 India Open Grand Prix Gold, then the women's singles title at the 2013 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold, then was runner-up at the 2014 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold. With her mixed doubles victory at the 2017 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold, she did one better and became the first player to win Grand Prix Gold titles in all three disciplines.
Misaki Matsutomo is a Japanese badminton player who is a doubles specialist. Despite playing doubles, she was also a finalist in girls' singles at the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships in Mexico.
Xing Aiying is a Chinese-born Singaporean badminton player who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Srikanth Kidambi is an Indian badminton player. He trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy, Hyderabad and is supported by the GoSports Foundation. In April 2018, he became the highest ranked men's badminton player in the world. He is also sponsored by Yonex. In 2018, he was awarded with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
Zhang Beiwen is an American professional badminton player who is a singles specialist.
He Bingjiao is a Chinese badminton player. She began to receive intensive badminton training at the Suzhou Junior Sports School, when she was only 7 years old. Five years later, she was sent to study in Nanjing and for tougher training there. The junior already competed in the senior level, and made her first senior international debut at the 2013 Vietnam Open. In 2014 she competed at the Summer Youth Olympics, winning a gold medal in the girls' singles and a bronze in the mixed doubles event.
Chen Yufei is a Chinese badminton player. In 2016, she won the girls' singles junior titles at the Asia Junior Championships and the World Junior Championships. At the same year, she also won her first senior title at the 2016 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold. In 2017, she was awarded as the Eddy Choong Most Promising Player of the Year.
