2017 Premier Badminton League

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2017 Premier Badminton League
Tournament details
Dates1 Jan 2017 – 14 Jan 2017
Edition2
Location India
Official website www.pbl-india.com
Results
Champions Chennai Smashers
Runners-up Mumbai Rockets
Semi-finalists Awadhe Warriors, Hyderabad Hunters
2016 2017-18

2017 Premier Badminton League (also known as Vodafone PBL 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was the second edition of Premier Badminton League. [1] It started on 1 January 2017 and concluded on 14 January 2017. It consisted of 15 league ties (each tie consisting of 5 matches) and the top four teams progressed to the knock out stages. Sachin Tendulkar became a co-owner of Bengaluru Topguns before the season and they were renamed as Bengaluru Blasters. [2]
Awadhe Warriors, Mumbai Rockets, Chennai Smashers and Hyderabad Hunters entered the semi-finals after topping the league table. Chennai Smashers beat Awadhe Warriors 4-1 and Mumbai Rockets beat Hyderabad Hunters 3-(-1) to proceed to the final. Chennai Smashers won the tournament after beating Mumbai Rockets 4-3.

Contents

Squads

The complete list of players of all the six participating teams [3]

Delhi AcersAwadhe WarriorsMumbai RocketsHyderabad HuntersBengaluru BlastersChennai Smashers
Flag of Denmark.svg Jan Ø. Jørgensen Flag of India.svg Srikanth Kidambi Flag of India.svg Ajay Jayaram Flag of India.svg B. Sai Praneeth Flag of Denmark.svg Viktor Axelsen Flag of India.svg P. V. Sindhu
Flag of India.svg Siril Verma Flag of Hong Kong.svg Wong Wing Ki Flag of India.svg Prannoy Kumar Flag of India.svg Sameer Verma Flag of India.svg Sourabh Varma Flag of India.svg Arundhati Pantawane
Flag of South Korea.svg Son Wan-ho Flag of India.svg Saina Nehwal Flag of India.svg Shreyansh Jaiswal Flag of England.svg Rajiv Ouseph Flag of Thailand.svg Boonsak Ponsana Flag of India.svg Parupalli Kashyap
Flag of India.svg Aakarshi Kashyap Flag of India.svg Rituparna Das Flag of South Korea.svg Sung Ji-hyun Flag of Spain.svg Carolina Marín Flag of India.svg Gadde Ruthvika Shivani Flag of Thailand.svg Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk
Flag of Thailand.svg Nichaon Jindapon Flag of Thailand.svg Bodin Issara Flag of India.svg Vrushali Gummadi Flag of India.svg Sri Krishna Priya Flag of Hong Kong.svg Cheung Ngan Yi Flag of Indonesia.svg Tommy Sugiarto
Flag of India.svg Akshay Dewalkar Flag of Malaysia.svg Goh V Shem Flag of Thailand.svg Nipitphon Puangpuapech Flag of India.svg Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Flag of India.svg N. Sikki Reddy Flag of England.svg Gabby Adcock
Flag of Russia.svg Ivan Sozonov Flag of Indonesia.svg Markis Kido Flag of India.svg Mohita Sahdev Flag of Malaysia.svg Tan Boon Heong Flag of India.svg Ashwini Ponnappa Flag of India.svg Ramya Tulasi
Flag of Russia.svg Vladimir Ivanov Flag of India.svg Prajakta Sawant Flag of Poland.svg Nadieżda Zięba Flag of Malaysia.svg Tan Wee Kiong Flag of India.svg Pranav Chopra Flag of India.svg B. Sumeeth Reddy
Flag of India.svg Jwala Gutta Flag of Thailand.svg Savitree Amitrapai Flag of India.svg Chirag Shetty Flag of Hong Kong.svg Chau Hoi Wah Flag of South Korea.svg Ko Sung-hyun Flag of England.svg Chris Adcock
Flag of India.svg K. Maneesha Flag of India.svg Aditya Joshi Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Yong-dae Flag of India.svg Meghana Jakkampudi Flag of South Korea.svg Yoo Yeon-seong Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Pieler Kolding
Flag of India.svg Sanjana Santosh
Flag of India.svg Tarun Kona

Points Table

TeamTPRMWTMWTMLPts.
Awadhe Warriors5115021
Mumbai Rockets (RU)5124119
Chennai Smashers (C)585018
Hyderabad Hunters5103214
Bengaluru Blasters573211
Delhi Acers54328

  Qualified for semifinals

Fixtures

The fixtures for the 2017 Premier Badminton League are as follows [5]

DateVenueTeam 1ResultTeam 2
League Stage
1 Jan Hyderabad Hyderabad Hunters 4-3 [6] Chennai Smashers
Bengaluru Blasters 4-3 [7] Delhi Acers
2 Jan Hyderabad Hunters 0-5 [8] Awadhe Warriors
3 Jan Mumbai Bengaluru Blasters 0-5 [9] Chennai Smashers
Delhi Acers (-1)-6 [10] Mumbai Rockets
4 Jan Hyderabad Hunters 1-2 [11] Mumbai Rockets
5 Jan Lucknow Awadhe Warriors 6-(-1) [12] Delhi Acers
6 Jan Awadhe Warriors 3-4 [13] Mumbai Rockets
7 Jan Bangalore Bengaluru Blasters 3-4 [14] Hyderabad Hunters
8 Jan Delhi Acers 5-2 [15] Chennai Smashers
Bengaluru Blasters 1-4 [16] Mumbai Rockets
9 Jan Bengaluru Blasters 3-4 [17] Awadhe Warriors
10 Jan Mumbai Rockets 3-4 Chennai Smashers
11 Jan Awadhe Warriors 3-4 Chennai Smashers
12 Jan New Delhi Delhi Acers 2-5 [18] Hyderabad Hunters
Semi-finals
13 Jan New Delhi Awadhe Warriors 1-4 Chennai Smashers
Mumbai Rockets 3-(-1) Hyderabad Hunters
Finals
14 Jan New Delhi Chennai Smashers 4-3 Mumbai Rockets


Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
13 January – New Delhi
 
 
Awadhe Warriors 1
 
14 January – New Delhi
 
Chennai Smashers 4
 
Chennai Smashers 4
 
13 January – New Delhi
 
Mumbai Rockets 3
 
Mumbai Rockets 3
 
 
Hyderabad Hunters -1
 

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