Syed Modi International Badminton Championships

Syed Modi International

Official website
Founded	2009;16 years ago (2009)
Editions	13 (2024)
Location	Lucknow (2024) India
Venue	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium (2024)
Prize money	USD$210,000 (2024)
Men's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Lakshya Sen (singles) Huang Di Liu Yang (doubles)
Most singles titles	2 Kashyap Parupalli Sameer Verma
Most doubles titles	2 Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen
Women's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	P. V. Sindhu (singles) Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand (doubles)
Most singles titles	3 Saina Nehwal P. V. Sindhu
Most doubles titles	2, Jung Kyung-eun
Mixed doubles
Draw	32
Current champions	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Supissara Paewsampran
Most titles (male)	1, all winners
Most titles (female)	1, all winners
Super 300
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Last completed
2024 Syed Modi International

The Syed Modi International Badminton Championships is an international badminton tournament held annually in India.

It was introduced to the badminton circuit as a BWF Grand Prix event in 2009. ^[1] Since then the tournament has been annually held in Lucknow at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium, although it was temporarily shifted to Hyderabad in 2010. ^{[2] [3]} In 2011, it was upgraded to the Grand Prix Gold event. ^[4] Badminton World Federation launched a new event structure in 2017. This tournament was then announced as a World Tour Super 300 event ever since 2018. ^[5]

History

The tournament was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association in 1991 as the Syed Modi Memorial Badminton Tournament in memory of Commonwealth Games champion Syed Modi. ^[6]

From its inauguration till 2003, it remained a national-level tournament. ^{[7] [8]} In 2004, it was organized as an international event for the first time, which saw some foreign participation. ^{[9] [10]}

The tournament was halted from 2005 to 2008 due to a political impasse between the UPBA and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which ended with relocation of the Uttar Pradesh Badminton Academy. ^{[11] [12] [13]}

Winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles	Ref
2009	Chetan Anand	Saina Nehwal	Fauzi Adnan Trikusuma Wardhana	Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi	Arun Vishnu Aparna Balan	[14] [15]
2010	Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka	Zhou Hui	Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano	Tang Jinhua Xia Huan	Liu Peixuan Tang Jinhua	[16] [17]
2011	Taufik Hidayat	Ratchanok Intanon	Naoki Kawamae Shoji Sato	Shinta Mulia Sari Yao Lei	Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam	[18] [19]
2012	Parupalli Kashyap	Lindaweni Fanetri	Ko Sung-hyun Lee Yong-dae	Savitree Amitrapai Sapsiree Taerattanachai	Fran Kurniawan Shendy Puspa Irawati	[20] [21]
2013	No competition
2014	Xue Song	Saina Nehwal	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Wang Yilyu Huang Yaqiong	[22] [23]
2015	Parupalli Kashyap	Saina Nehwal	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Amelia Alicia Anscelly Soong Fie Cho	Riky Widianto Richi Puspita Dili	[24] [25]
2016	Srikanth Kidambi	Sung Ji-hyun	Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	Jung Kyung-eun Shin Seung-chan	Praveen Jordan Debby Susanto	[26] [27]
2017	Sameer Verma	P. V. Sindhu	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl	Pranav Chopra N. Sikki Reddy	[28] [29]
2018	Sameer Verma	Han Yue	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	Chow Mei Kuan Lee Meng Yean	Ou Xuanyi Feng Xueying	[30] [31]
2019	Wang Tzu-wei	Carolina Marín	He Jiting Tan Qiang	Baek Ha-na Jung Kyung-eun	Rodion Alimov Alina Davletova	[32] [33]
2020	Cancelled [note 1]					[34]
2021	Cancelled [note 2]					[35]
2022	Not awarded	P. V. Sindhu	Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun	Anna Cheong Teoh Mei Xing	Ishaan Bhatnagar Tanisha Crasto	[36] [37]
2023	Chi Yu-jen	Nozomi Okuhara	Choong Hon Jian Muhammad Haikal	Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi	Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja	[38] [39]
2024	Lakshya Sen	P. V. Sindhu	Huang Di Liu Yang	Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Supissara Paewsampran	[40]

1. This tournament, originally to be played from 17 to 22 November, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.
2. This tournament, originally to be played from 12 to 17 October, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Performance by nations

As of the 2024 edition

Pos.	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	India	7	6		1	3	17
2	China	1	2	3	2	3	11
3	Indonesia	2	1	3		4	10
4	Malaysia			3	3		6
5	Japan		1	1	2		4
	South Korea		1	1	2		4
	Thailand		1		1	2	4
6	Denmark			2	1		3
7	Chinese Taipei	2					2
8	Russia					1	1
	Singapore				1		1
	Spain		1				1
Total		12*	13	13	13	13	64

Note: Men's singles was not awarded in 2022 due to COVID-19

See also

• India Open
• Hyderabad Open (badminton)
• Odisha Open
• Guwahati Masters
• India International Challenge

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