Taufik Hidayat is an Indonesian retired badminton player who is the current Deputy Minister for Youth and Sport of Indonesia. He is a former World, Olympic, two time Asian Games, and three time Asian champion, and the youngest world number one in the men's singles. Hidayat has won the Indonesia Open six times. He is considered one of the great men's single players in badminton history and has earned the nickname "Mr. Backhand".
Peter Høeg Gade is a Danish former professional badminton player. He currently resides in Holte in Copenhagen. He has two children with the former handball player Camilla Høeg.
Guo Zhendong is a badminton player from China. As of July 2010, he was ranked within the top 10 male badminton doubles teams in the world. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.
Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus is a Danish badminton player. He was a member of the winning Denmark team at the 2016 Thomas Cup in Kunshan, China.
Jan Østergaard Jørgensen is a Danish retired badminton player who played for SIF (Skovshoved) in the national league. He won the men's singles title at the 2014 European Championships, and was the bronze medalist at the 2015 World Championships. He joined the Denmark winning team at the 2016 Thomas Cup in Kunshan, China.
Wouter Claes is a left-handed Belgian badminton player. He won 20 Belgian titles, 10 in the men's doubles with Frédéric Mawet and Ruud Kuijten, 10 in the mixed doubles with Manon Albinus, Corina Herrle and Nathalie Descamps. He won 20 Flemish Championships in singles, men's doubles with Nico Claes and Steven Delsaert and mixed doubles with Nathalie Descamps and Janne Elst. He won a bronze medal in the mixed doubles during the 2010 European Badminton Championships. This was the first Belgian medal ever won at a European Championship. During his career, he was placed 21 in world ranking.
Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk is a Thai badminton player. He won his first career Superseries title by winning the Denmark Open on 23 October 2016, becoming the first Thai to win a men's singles title in a Superseries Premier tournament. He is studying for a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration at Siam University.
Chou Tien-chen is a Taiwanese badminton player. He became the first local shuttler in 17 years to win the men's singles title of the Chinese Taipei Open in 2016 since Indonesian-born Fung Permadi won it in 1999. He won his first BWF Super Series title at the 2014 French Open, beating Wang Zhengming of China 10–21, 25–23, 21–19 in the finals. He is the record holder of three consecutive Hylo Open titles from 2012 till 2014.
Nozomi Okuhara is a Japanese badminton player. A former World's number 1 in the BWF rankings for the women's singles, she is well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and gold medal at the 2017 World Championships.
Kim Sa-rang is a South Korean badminton player. He competed at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
Sameer Verma is an Indian badminton player. He trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy, Hyderabad. Sameer is the brother of Indian badminton player Sourabh Verma.
Kento Momota is a former Japanese badminton player. He has won several major badminton tournaments including two World Championships titles, two Asian Championships titles, and one All England title. Momota has received a Guinness World Records certificate for "The most badminton men's singles titles in a season", for his achievements by winning 11 titles in the 2019 season.
Beiwen Zhang is a badminton player who is a singles specialist. Born in China, she previously represented Singapore and currently represents the United States. She won the women's singles title at the 2021 Pan Am Championships and at the 2023 Pan American Games.
Angus Ng Ka Long is a badminton player from Hong Kong. He has a career-high ranking of 6th in the men's singles discipline. He won the 2016 Hong Kong Super Series, the 2020 Thailand Masters and the 2023 German Open.
Henri Aarnio is a Finnish badminton player. He started playing badminton at 9 years old, then at age 19, he won the Finnish International Junior Championships in boys' singles. In 2015, he was the runner-up at the Slovak Open in the men's singles event and in 2016, he became the runner-up of the Hellas Open in the mixed doubles event with Jenny Nyström. In 2017, he became the runner-up at the Estonian International tournament in the men's doubles event partnered with Iikka Heino.
Nick Fransman is a Dutch badminton player. Plays for BC Smashing in Wijchen, he won the 2009 national junior titles in singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles. Fransman represented his country compete at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. He was runner-up at the National Championships in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Yoshinori Takeuchi is a Japanese badminton player.
Shevon Jemie Lai is a Malaysian badminton player.
Hong Ji-hoon (Korean: 홍지훈), born 27 October 1988) is a South Korean badminton player.
Yu Igarashi is a Japanese badminton player. He won his first international title at the 2017 Osaka International tournament.
Misha Zilberman 
Runner-up
Julien Paul 
Winner
Bahaedeen Ahmad Alshannik 
Kevin Cordón 
Xiaodong Sheng 
