Official website | |
Founded | 1937 |
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Editions | 67 (2024) |
Location | Kuala Lumpur (2024) Malaysia |
Venue | Axiata Arena (2024) |
Prize money | US$1,300,000 (2024) |
Men's | |
Draw | 32S / 32D |
Current champions | Anders Antonsen (singles) Liang Weikeng Wang Chang (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 12 Lee Chong Wei |
Most doubles titles | 6 Tan Yee Khan Ng Boon Bee |
Women's | |
Draw | 32S / 32D |
Current champions | An Se-young (singles) Liu Shengshu Tan Ning (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 9 Cecilia Samuel |
Most doubles titles | 9 Cecilia Samuel |
Mixed doubles | |
Draw | 32 |
Current champions | Yuta Watanabe Arisa Higashino |
Most titles (male) | 5 Zheng Siwei |
Most titles (female) | 4 Huang Yaqiong |
Super 1000 | |
Last completed | |
2024 Malaysia Open |
The Malaysia Open is an annual badminton tournament that has been held since 1937. It has been played in various locations such as Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Penang, Selangor, and Kuantan.
The event's annual pattern was interrupted three times: from 1942 to 1946, because of World War II, from 1969 to 1982, and from 2020 to 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It became one of the BWF Super Series tournaments from 2007 to 2017 known as the Malaysia Super Series. BWF categorised Malaysia Open as one of the five BWF World Tour Super 750 events in the BWF events structure since 2018. [1] Since 2023, it became a Super 1000 tournament. [2]
Since 2003, Malaysia Open has been held in cities across Malaysia.
City | Years host |
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Kota Kinabalu | 2003 |
Kuantan | 2004 |
Kuala Lumpur | 2005, 2007–2015, 2018–2019, 2022–2024 |
Kuching | 2006, 2017 |
Shah Alam | 2016 |
Rank | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
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1 | Federated Malay States Malaya Malaysia | 28 | 17 | 32.5 | 21 | 18.5 | 117 |
2 | China | 9 | 23 | 5 | 26 | 15 | 78 |
3 | Indonesia | 8 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 44 |
4 | Straits Settlements Singapore | 12 | 3 | 3.5 | 2 | 3 | 23.5 |
5 | South Korea | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 19 | |
6 | Denmark | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 16 | |
7 | Thailand | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | ||
8 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
9 | England | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||
10 | Chinese Taipei | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
11 | Sweden | 2 | 1.5 | 3.5 | |||
12 | Spain | 1 | 1 | ||||
United States | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 67 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 64 | 332 |
Wins | Winner(s) |
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12 | Lee Chong Wei |
8 | Wong Peng Soon |
3 | Charoen Wattanasin |
Tan Aik Huang | |
Rashid Sidek | |
2 | Ong Poh Lim |
Eddy Choong | |
Xiong Guobao | |
Ong Ewe Hock | |
Peter Gade | |
Lin Dan | |
Viktor Axelsen |
Wins | Winner(s) |
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9 | Cecilia Samuel |
5 | Zhang Ning |
4 | Tan Gaik Bee |
Susi Susanti | |
Tai Tzu-ying | |
3 | Minarni |
2 | Helen Heng |
Pratuang Pattabongs | |
Li Lingwei | |
Han Aiping | |
Huang Hua | |
Tine Baun | |
Ratchanok Intanon |
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