Official website | |
Founded | 2018 |
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Editions | 6 (2023) |
Location | Hangzhou (2023) China |
Venue | Hangzhou Olympic Sports Expo Center (2023) |
Prize money | USD2,500,000 (2023) |
Men's | |
Draw | 8S / 8D |
Current champions | Viktor Axelsen (singles) Kang Min-hyuk & Seo Seung-jae (doubles) |
Most singles titles | Viktor Axelsen (3) |
Most doubles titles | Liu Yuchen (2) |
Women's | |
Draw | 8S / 8D |
Current champions | Tai Tzu-ying (singles) Chen Qingchen & Jia Yifan (doubles) |
Most singles titles | Tai Tzu-ying (2) |
Most doubles titles | Chen Qingchen (3), Jia Yifan (3) |
Mixed doubles | |
Draw | 8 |
Current champions | Zheng Siwei & Huang Yaqiong |
Most titles (male) | Zheng Siwei (3) |
Most titles (female) | Huang Yaqiong (3) |
Last completed | |
2023 BWF World Tour Finals |
The BWF World Tour Finals, officially HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, which succeeds BWF Super Series Finals, is an annual season finale badminton tournament which is held every December of a year where the players with the most points from that calendar year's events of the BWF World Tour compete for total prize money of at least US$ 2,500,000.
The tournament offers minimum total prize money of USD$2,500,000. [1] The prize money is distributed via the following formula: [2]
The prize money distribution (as of 2023 editions) are:
Round | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles |
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Winner | US$200,000 | US$200,000 | US$210,000 | US$210,000 | US$210,000 |
Runner-up | US$100,000 | US$100,000 | US$100,000 | US$100,000 | US$100,000 |
Semi-finalist | US$50,000 | US$50,000 | US$50,000 | US$50,000 | US$50,000 |
3rd in Group | US$27,500 | US$27,500 | US$32,500 | US$32,500 | US$32,500 |
4th in Group | US$15,000 | US$15,000 | US$17,500 | US$17,500 | US$17,500 |
Below is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF World Tour Final event. [3]
Winner(s) | Runner(s)-up | Semi-finalists | 3rd in group stage | 4th in group stage |
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12,000 | 10,200 | 8,400 | 7,500 | 6,600 |
At the end of the BWF World Tour circuit, top eight players/pairs in the BWF World Tour standing of each discipline, with the maximum of two players/pairs from the same member association, are required to play in a final tournament known as the BWF World Tour Finals. [4]
If two or more players are tie in ranking, the selection of players will based on the following criteria: [4]
Pos | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
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1 | China | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
2 | Denmark | 4 | 4 | ||||
Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
South Korea | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
5 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
6 | Thailand | 2 | 2 | ||||
7 | India | 1 | 1 | ||||
Indonesia | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 30 |
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