The Syed Modi International Badminton Championships is a BWF World Tour Super 300 international badminton tournament held annually in India.
It was introduced to the badminton circuit as a BWF Grand Prix event in 2009. 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. In 2011, it was upgraded to the Grand Prix Gold event. 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.
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.
From its inauguration till 2003, it remained a national-level tournament. In 2004, it was organized as an international event for the first time, which saw some foreign participation.
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.
Locations Below is the cities that have hosted the tournament. Lucknow: 2009, 2011–2012, 2014–2019, 2022–2026 Hyderabad: 2010
Winners YearMen's singlesWomen's singlesMen's doublesWomen's doublesMixed doublesRef2009 Chetan Anand Saina Nehwal Fauzi Adnan Trikusuma Wardhana Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi Arun Vishnu Aparna Balan2010 Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka Zhou Hui Mohammad Ahsan Bona Septano Tang Jinhua Xia Huan Liu Peixuan Tang Jinhua2011 Taufik Hidayat Ratchanok Intanon Naoki Kawamae Shoji Sato Shinta Mulia Sari Yao Lei Sudket Prapakamol Saralee Thungthongkam2012 Parupalli Kashyap Lindaweni Fanetri Ko Sung-hyun Lee Yong-dae Savitree Amitrapai Sapsiree Taerattanachai Fran Kurniawan Shendy Puspa Irawati2013No competition2014 Xue Song Saina Nehwal Li Junhui Liu Yuchen Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan Wang Yilyu Huang Yaqiong2015 Parupalli Kashyap Saina Nehwal Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen Amelia Alicia Anscelly Soong Fie Cho Riky Widianto Richi Puspita Dili2016 Srikanth Kidambi Sung Ji-hyun Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong Jung Kyung-eun Shin Seung-chan Praveen Jordan Debby Susanto2017 Sameer Verma P. V. Sindhu Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl Pranav Chopra N. Sikki Reddy2018 Sameer Verma Han Yue Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto Chow Mei Kuan Lee Meng Yean Ou Xuanyi Feng Xueying2019 Wang Tzu-wei Carolina Marín He Jiting Tan Qiang Baek Ha-na Jung Kyung-eun Rodion Alimov Alina Davletova2020Cancelled2021Cancelled2022 Not awarded P. V. Sindhu Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun Anna Cheong Teoh Mei Xing Ishaan Bhatnagar Tanisha Crasto2023 Chi Yu-jen Nozomi Okuhara Choong Hon Jian Muhammad Haikal Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi Dejan Ferdinansyah Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja2024 Lakshya Sen P. V. Sindhu Huang Di Liu Yang Treesa Jolly Gayatri Gopichand Dechapol Puavaranukroh Supissara Paewsampran2025 Jason Gunawan Hina Akechi Kang Khai Xing Aaron Tai Dejan Ferdinansyah Bernadine Wardana
Performance by nations
NationTotal17623182123231121351144375212561124112482139221011111111Total13*1414141469 Note: Men's singles was not awarded in 2022 due to COVID-19
See also India Open Hyderabad Open (Defunct) Odisha Masters Guwahati Masters India International Challenge
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