| Location | Birmingham United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Venue | Utilita Arena Birmingham |
| Governing body | NEC Group |
| Created | 1900 |
| Editions | Total: 113 Open era (since 1980): 45 |
| Prize money | $91,000 (2024) |
| Trophy | Perpetual Challenge Bowl |
| Website | allenglandbadminton.com |
| Most titles | |
| Amateur era | 10: Judy Devlin |
| Open era | 4: Susi Susanti |
| Most consecutive titles | |
| Amateur era | 5: Judy Devlin |
| Open era | 3: Ye Zhaoying 3: Xie Xingfang |
| Current champion | |
| Carolina Marín – 2024 (2nd title) | |
The All England Open Badminton Championships is an annual British badminton tournament created in 1899. For four decades beginning 1954, the Championships was held at the Wembley Arena, London but since 1994, it has been played at the Arena Birmingham in the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom. [1] The Ladies' Singles was first contested in 1900. [2] Below is the list of the winners at the All England Open Badminton Championships in ladies' singles. The tournament was cancelled between 1915–1919 because of World War I, and between 1940–1946 because of World War II.
In the Amateur era, Judy Devlin (1954, 1957–1958, 1960–1964, 1966–1967) holds the record for the most titles in the Ladies' Singles, winning All England ten times. Devlin also holds the record for most consecutive titles with five from 1960 to 1964.
Since the Open era of badminton began in late 1979 [3] [4] with the inclusion of professional badminton players from around the world in 1980, Susi Susanti (1990-1991, 1993-1994) holds the record for the most Ladies' Singles titles with four. Ye Zhaoying (1997-1999) and Xie Xingfang (2005–2007) share the record for most consecutive victories with three.
This event was won without losing a single game in the entire tournament during the Open Era as many as ten times. The first to accomplish this was Lene Køppen who won the very first Open Era edition in 1980, followed by Zhang Ailing in 1982, consecutively from 1984 to 1986 by Li Lingwei, Han Aiping and Kim Yun-ja respectively, Gu Jiaming in 1988, Zhou Mi in 2003, Xie Xingfang in 2005 and 2007 and Wang Shixian in 2014.
Lene Køppen is the only player in history to reach the All England Open Badminton Ladies' Singles Final in both the Amateur and Open Era. She managed to do so a total of four times, winning in the last and first editions of the Amateur and Open Era respectively and also losing once each in both Era.
Bold indicates active players.
| Rank | Country | Amateur era | Open era | All-time | First title | Last title | First champion | Last champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  England (ENG) | 39 | 0 | 39 | 1900 | 1978 | Ethel Warneford Thomson | Gillian Gilks |
| 2 |  China (CHN) | 0 | 22 | 22 | 1982 | 2019 | Ailing Zhang | Yufei Chen |
| 3 |  Denmark (DEN) | 8 | 6 | 14 | 1947 | 2013 | Marie Ussing | Tine Rasmussen |
| 4 |  United States (USA) | 12 | 0 | 12 | 1954 | 1967 | Judy Devlin | |
| 5 |  Japan (JPN) | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1969 | 2022 | Hiroe Yuki | Akane Yamaguchi |
| 6 |  Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1990 | 1994 | Susi Susanti | |
 South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 4 | 1981 | 2023 | Sun-ae Hwang | Se-young An | ||
| 8 |  Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2017 | 2020 | Tzu-ying Tai | |
 Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 1 | 1968 | 1995 | Eva Twedberg | Xiaoqing Lim | ||
| 10 |  Spain (ESP) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2015 | 2024 | Carolina Marín | |
| 11 |  Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1939 | Dorothy Walton | ||
Bold indicates active players.
Italic indicates players who never won the championship.
Petya Nedelcheva is a Bulgarian badminton player. She was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian National Badminton Championships she won more than 20 titles.
Camilla Martin Nygaard is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All England and World Championships singles titles.
Yao Jie is a Chinese-born badminton player who now resides in the Netherlands.
Zhang Ning is a former Chinese badminton player. She won the Olympic gold medal twice for women's singles in both 2004 and 2008. She has played badminton on the world scene since the mid-1990s and has been particularly successful since 2002 while in her late twenties and early thirties, relatively late for singles at the highest level, and especially for top players in the Chinese system who are developed very early. She is known for her consistency of shot, deception and constant pressure, dictating the pace of rallies and working her opponents in all four corners of the court. She is the only female player to win consecutive Olympic singles gold medals. She also became World champion in 2003 and has a total of five medals of all colours in the competition.
Xie Xingfang is a retired Chinese badminton player from Guangzhou, Guangdong. She is a former defending two-time world champion for women's singles, and former women's singles World No. 1.
The All England Open Badminton Championships is the world's oldest badminton tournament, held annually in England. With the introduction of the BWF's latest grading system, it was given Super Series status in 2007, upgraded to Super Series Premier status in 2011, and designated a Super 1000 event at the birth of the World Tour in 2018. The Super 1000 events, held in four historic strongholds of the sport of badminton are the highest level events below the World Championships and Olympic Games tournaments, and broadly equivalent in stature, though apart from the All-England not in historicity, to the Grand Slam tournaments in tennis.
Huaiwen Xu is a German badminton player. Born in Guiyang, Guizhou, China, she decided to play for Germany because the Chinese thought that she was too short to play professional world badminton.
Lu Lan is a badminton player from China.
Judy Devlin is a former badminton player who won more major international titles than any other player of her era.
Ethel Marshall was an American badminton player noted for her mobility and shot-making prowess.
Margaret Varner Bloss is a retired American athlete and professor of physical education from El Paso, Texas who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis.
Thelma Kingsbury (1911–1979), was an English-born, naturalised American sportswoman who won major badminton titles in the British Isles and then in the US from the early 1930s to the early 1950s.
Wang Yihan is a retired Chinese professional badminton player and former women's singles world champion and Olympic silver medalist. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was selected for the junior team in 2004, and after being promoted to the senior team in 2006, she began to shine in major tournaments. By October 2009 she was the top ranked Women's singles player in the world.
Ethel Larcombe was a British female tennis player and badminton player. She won the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships as well as 11 badminton titles at the All England Badminton Championships.
Dorothy "Dottie" O'Neil is a retired American badminton player.
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