India Open

This article is about the badminton event. For other tournaments, see Indian Open.

India Open

Official website
Founded	1973;53 years ago (1973)
Editions	24 (2026)
Location	New Delhi (2026) India
Venue	Indira Gandhi Arena (2026)
Prize money	US$950,000 (2026)
Men's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Lin Chun-yi (singles) Liang Weikeng Wang Chang (doubles)
Most singles titles	3 Lee Chong Wei Viktor Axelsen
Most doubles titles	3 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo
Women's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	An Se-young (singles) Liu Shengshu Tan Ning (doubles)
Most singles titles	3 Ratchanok Intanon An Se-young
Most doubles titles	2 Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi Greysia Polii Apriyani Rahayu
Mixed doubles
Draw	32
Current champions	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Supissara Paewsampran
Most titles (male)	3, Tontowi Ahmad
Most titles (female)	3, Liliyana Natsir
Super 750
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Last completed
2026 India Open

The India Open is an annual badminton event which has been held in India since 2008 and is a BWF World Tour Super 750 international badminton tournament. ^[1] Its first three editions were designated as Grand Prix Gold events. In 2011, it was upgraded to a BWF Superseries tournament. ^[2] From 2011 until 2019, it was held annually at the Siri Fort Sports Complex, New Delhi. ^[3] The BWF categorised India Open as one of the seven BWF World Tour Super 500 events as per the event structure since 2018. The India Open has been upgraded to a BWF World Tour Super 750 event as of 2023. ^[1]

Locations

Below is the cities that have hosted the tournament.

• Hyderabad: 2008–2009
• Chennai: 2010
• New Delhi: 2011–2019, 2022–2026

2008–2009

2010

2011–2019, 2022–2026

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Locations of India Open host cities

Winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles	Ref
1973	Svend Pri	Eva Twedberg	Elliot Stuart Derek Talbot	Eva Twedberg Joke van Beusekom	Elliot Stuart Eva Twedberg
1974– 1978	No competition
1979	Dhany Sartika	Tjan So Gwan	Rudy Heryanto Hariamanto Kartono	Ivanna Lie Tjan So Gwan	Hariamanto Kartono Tjan So Gwan
1980	No competition
1981	Prakash Padukone	Zheng Yuli	Stefan Karlsson Thomas Kihlström	Nora Perry Jane Webster	Ray Stevens Nora Perry
1982	Lius Pongoh	Jane Webster		Gillian Clark Gillian Gilks	Billy Gilliland Karen Chapman	[4]
1983	Morten Frost	Yoo Sang-hee	Jesper Helledie Jens Peter Nierhoff	Kim Yun-ja Yoo Sang-hee	No competition
1984	No competition
1985	Steve Baddeley	Helen Troke	Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong	Hwang Sun-ai Kang Haeng-suk	Steve Baddeley Gillian Gowers
1986– 1996	No competition
1997	Heryanto Arbi	Cindana Hartono Kusuma	Ade Lukas Ade Sutrisna	Etty Tantri Cynthia Tuwankotta	Imam Tohari Emma Ermawati	[5]
1998– 2007	No competition
2008	Boonsak Ponsana	Zhou Mi	Guo Zhendong Xie Zhongbo	Cheng Wen-hsing Chien Yu-chin	He Hanbin Yu Yang	[6]
2009	Taufik Hidayat	Pi Hongyan	Choong Tan Fook Lee Wan Wah	Ma Jin Wang Xiaoli	Flandy Limpele Vita Marissa	[7]
2010	Alamsyah Yunus	Saina Nehwal	Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari	Shinta Mulia Sari Yao Lei	Valiyaveetil Diju Jwala Gutta	[8]
2011	Lee Chong Wei	Porntip Buranaprasertsuk	Hirokatsu Hashimoto Noriyasu Hirata	Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir	[9]
2012	Son Wan-ho	Li Xuerui	Bodin Isara Maneepong Jongjit	Jung Kyung-eun Kim Ha-na		[10]
2013	Lee Chong Wei	Ratchanok Intanon	Liu Xiaolong Qiu Zihan	Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna		[11]
2014		Wang Shixian	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Tang Yuanting Yu Yang	Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen	[12]
2015	Srikanth Kidambi	Saina Nehwal	Chai Biao Hong Wei	Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi	Liu Cheng Bao Yixin	[13]
2016	Kento Momota	Ratchanok Intanon	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo		Lu Kai Huang Yaqiong	[14]
2017	Viktor Axelsen	P. V. Sindhu		Shiho Tanaka Koharu Yonemoto		[15]
2018	Shi Yuqi	Beiwen Zhang		Greysia Polii Apriyani Rahayu	Mathias Christiansen Christinna Pedersen	[16]
2019	Viktor Axelsen	Ratchanok Intanon	Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin		Wang Yilyu Huang Dongping	[17]
2020	Cancelled [note 1]					[18]
2021	Cancelled [note 2]					[19]
2022	Lakshya Sen	Busanan Ongbamrungphan	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Benyapa Aimsaard Nuntakarn Aimsaard	Terry Hee Tan Wei Han	[20]
2023	Kunlavut Vitidsarn	An Se-young	Liang Weikeng Wang Chang	Nami Matsuyama Chiharu Shida	Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino	[21]
2024	Shi Yuqi	Tai Tzu-ying	Kang Min-hyuk Seo Seung-jae	Mayu Matsumoto Wakana Nagahara	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai	[22]
2025	Viktor Axelsen	An Se-young	Goh Sze Fei Nur Izzuddin	Arisa Igarashi Ayako Sakuramoto	Jiang Zhenbang Wei Yaxin	[23]
2026	Lin Chun-yi		Liang Weikeng Wang Chang	Liu Shengshu Tan Ning	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Supissara Paewsampran	[24]

1. This tournament, originally to be played from 8 to 13 December, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
2. This tournament, originally to be played from 11 to 16 May, was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Performance by nations

As of the 2026 edition

Pos	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	Indonesia	5	2	5	4	6	22
2	China	2	3	5	3	6	19
3	Japan	1		1	8	1	11
	Thailand	2	5	1	1	2	11
5	South Korea	1	4	2	3		10
6	Denmark	5		2		2	9
	England	1	2	1	2	3	9
8	India	3	3	1		1	8
9	Malaysia	3		3			6
10	Chinese Taipei	1	1	1	1		4
	Sweden		1	2	0.5	0.5	4
12	Singapore				1	1	2
13	France		1				1
	Hong Kong		1				1
	United States		1				1
16	Netherlands				0.5		0.5
	Scotland					0.5	0.5
Total		24	24	24	24	23	119

See also

• Syed Modi International Badminton Championships
• Hyderabad Open (Defunct)
• Odisha Masters
• Guwahati Masters
• India International Challenge

References

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2. "Indian Open to become a Super Series event from 2011". NDTV . Retrieved 8 October 2015.
3. "India Open Super Series from April 26". The Hindu . Retrieved 8 October 2015.
4. "Webster walks to title". The Guardian. 16 August 1982. p. 15. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
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15. "YONEX SUNRISE India Open 2017 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
16. "YONEX-SUNRISE DR. AKHILESH DAS GUPTA India Open 2018 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
17. "YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
18. "YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2020 (Cancelled)". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
19. "YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2021 (Cancelled)". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
20. "YONEX-YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2022 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
21. "YONEX SUNRISE India Open 2023 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
22. "YONEX SUNRISE India Open 2024 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
23. "YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2025 winners". BWF Tournament-Software. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
24. "YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2026 winners". BWF. Retrieved 3 January 2026.

External links

• Official website