Monday, May 6, 2024

Tournaments

Tournaments of the world tour are the backbone of professional badminton. Here you will find updates, news, predictions, and media about the world tour tournaments.

Badminton collage
Once again Asia dominated the BWF World Junior Championships. European badminton nations Denmark, France, and Germany were represented in a measly 4 out of 20 quarterfinals. Except for one player from the USA, the rest...
BWF World Tour Finals 2022
The BWF World Tour Finals sponsored by HSBC will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, between 7-11 December 2022. This is the final year-end competition between eight qualifiers in each of the five badminton categories. Badmintonspeak.com...
Canadian International Challenge badminton tournament
Following a hiatus of 9 years, The Canadian International Challenge badminton tournament took place in Markham in December 2022. The tournament is part of the BWF International Challenge series. The first edition was held in...
Viktor Axelsen super series final winner
Is it Lin Dan? Kento Momota? Chen Long? Viktor Axelsen? Lee Chong Wei? Ardy Wiranata? Morten Frost? Anders Antonsen? Or maybe someone else? Surely, the longest winning streak in the modern era of men's...
Welsh International badminton tournament
The Welsh International Badminton Championships featured quite a few top 50 players competing in the 2022 edition. The tournament is one of the oldest badminton tournaments in the world. The first edition took place in...
Kodai Naraoka vs. Viktor Axelsen men's singles badminton
Kodai Naraoka - one of the players to watch from Japan - was very close to winning over Viktor Axelsen, the current world number 1. It happened in the semifinals at the World Tour Finals...
Kento Momota Kandinsky art super series
Note: the season final was referred to as BWF World Tour Finals (from 2018) and BWF Super Series Masters Final (2008-2017), as well as HSBC World Tour Final. From 1983 to 2001 the season finals...