Official website | |
Founded | 2009 |
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Editions | 12 (2023) |
Location | Lucknow (2023) India |
Venue | Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium (2023) |
Prize money | USD$210,000 (2023) |
Men's | |
Draw | 32S / 32D |
Current champions | Chi Yu-jen (singles) Choong Hon Jian Muhammad Haikal (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 2 Kashyap Parupalli Sameer Verma |
Most doubles titles | 2 Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen |
Women's | |
Draw | 32S / 32D |
Current champions | Nozomi Okuhara (singles) Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi (doubles) |
Most singles titles | 3 Saina Nehwal |
Most doubles titles | 2 Jung Kyung-eun |
Mixed doubles | |
Draw | 32 |
Current champions | Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja |
Most titles (male) | 1 |
Most titles (female) | 1 |
Super 300 | |
Last completed | |
2023 Syed Modi International |
The Syed Modi International Badminton Championships is an international badminton tournament, which is held annually in India.
This tournament was introduced to the badminton circuit as a BWF Grand Prix event in 2009. [1] Since then the tournament is being 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 later included as a BWF World Tour Super 300 event which began to be competed in 2018. [5]
The tournament was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Badminton Association (UPBA) in 1991 as the 'Syed Modi Memorial Badminton Tournament' in memory of the 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 low-key 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]
Pos. | Nation | MS | WS | MD | WD | XD | Total |
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1 | India | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 | ||
2 | China | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
Indonesia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | ||
4 | Malaysia | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
5 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
South Korea | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
7 | Denmark | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
Thailand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
9 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 2 | ||||
10 | Russia | 1 | 1 | ||||
Singapore | 1 | 1 | |||||
Spain | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 11* | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 59 |
2022 not awarded for men's singles because of covid-19 during tournament
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