Location | Kuala Lumpur Malaysia |
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Venue | Axiata Arena |
Governing body | BAM |
Created | 1937 |
Editions | 64 (2024) Open Era (1980): 39 |
Prize money | $1,300,000 (2024) |
Trophy | Mixed doubles trophy |
Website | bam.org.my |
Most titles | |
Amateur era | 5: Tan Gaik Bee |
Open era | 5: Zheng Siwei |
Most consecutive titles | |
Amateur era | 4: Lim Say Hup 4: Tan Gaik Bee |
Open era | 5: Zheng Siwei |
Current champion | |
Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino – 2024 (First title) |
Malaysia Open is an annual Malaysian badminton tournament created in 1937 and played at the Axiata Arena in the Bukit Jalil suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Malaysia Open is played in the second week of January (prior to this it was first week in April or first week in July) and is chronologically the first of the four BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournaments of the badminton season. [1] In between 2014 and 2017, it has been chronologically the first or second (after the All England Open Badminton Championships) of the five BWF Super Series Premier tournaments. The event was not held from 1942 to 1946 because of World War II, from 1961, 1964, 1969 to 1982, 1985, and from 2020 to 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Below is the list of the winners at the Malaysia Open in mixed doubles. [2]
Country | Amateur Era | Open Era | All-time | First title | Last title |
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![]() | 18.5 | 0 | 18.5 | 1939 | 1965 |
![]() | 0 | 15 | 15 | 1997 | 2023 |
![]() | 2 | 7 | 9 | 1966 | 2016 |
![]() | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1989 | 2005 |
![]() | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1955 | 2013 |
![]() | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1983 | 2002 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1937 | 1952 |
![]() | 0.5 | 1 | 1.5 | 1968 | 1994 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
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