The 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup (officially known as the 2018 BWF Thomas & Uber Cup) was the 30th edition of the Thomas Cup and the 27th edition of the Uber Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the men and women's national teams of the member associations of Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament was hosted by Bangkok, Thailand 20–27 May 2018.
The matches were played at IMPACT Arena. It was the second time that Thailand hosted the Thomas Cup and the first time hosted the Uber Cup tournament and the first time this event was held in Southeast Asia since 2010 in Malaysia.
Denmark were the defending men's champions, and China were the defending women's champions.
Host selection Bangkok and New Delhi submitted bids for this championships. Bangkok was named as the host in March 2017 during BWF Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where BWF also decided the host for 2018 BWF World Championships, 2019 Sudirman Cup and 2019 BWF World Championships.
Qualification Thomas Cup
Means of qualification DateVenueVacanciesQualifiedHost country18 March 2017 Kuala Lumpur12016 Thomas Cup 22 May 2016 Kunshan12018 Oceania Championships 6–11 February 2018 Hamilton12018 Asia Team Championships6–11 February 2018 Alor Setar42018 All Africa Team Championships 12–15 February 2018 Algiers12018 European Team Championships13–18 February 2018 Kazan4–12018 Pan Am Championships 15–18 February 2018 Tacarigua1Best world team rankings 18 February 2018 Kuala Lumpur3+1Total16 Note
Uber Cup
Means of qualification DateVenueVacanciesQualifiedHost country18 March 2017 Kuala Lumpur12016 Uber Cup 22 May 2016 Kunshan12018 Oceania Championships 6–11 February 2018 Hamilton12018 Asia Team Championships6–11 February 2018 Alor Setar42018 All Africa Team Championships 12–15 February 2018 Algiers12018 European Team Championships13–18 February 2018 Kazan4–12018 Pan Am Championships 15–18 February 2018 Tacarigua1Best world team rankings 18 February 2018 Kuala Lumpur3+1Total16 Note
Draw The draw for the tournament was conducted on 22 March 2018, at 18:00 ICT, at Arnoma Grand Hotel in Bangkok. The 16 men and 16 women teams were drawn into four groups of four.
For the Thomas Cup draw, the teams were allocated to three pots based on the World Team Rankings of 22 February 2018. Pot 1 contained the top seed China (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed Denmark (which were assigned to position D1) and the next two best teams, Indonesia and Chinese Taipei. Pot 2 contained the next best four teams, and Pot 3 was for the ninth to sixteenth seeds.
A similar procedure was applied for Uber Cup draw, where top seed Japan (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed China (which were assigned to position D1), Korea and Thailand were in Pot 1.
Thomas Cup Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
Uber Cup Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
Squads
Tiebreakers The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows (regulations Chapter 5 Section 5.2.1. Article 12): Points Results between tied teams Match difference Game difference Point difference
Teams that won 3 match first win the tie: 1 point for the winner, 0 match points for the loser.
Medal summary Medalists Thomas Cup Chen Long Shi YuqiLin DanQiao BinLiu ChengZhang NanLi JunhuiLiu YuchenWang YilüZheng Siwei Kento Momota Kenta NishimotoKazumasa SakaiKanta TsuneyamaTakeshi KamuraKeigo SonodaTakuto InoueYuki KanekoHiroyuki EndoYuta Watanabe Viktor Axelsen Anders AntonsenHans-Kristian VittinghusJan Ø. JørgensenMathias BoeMads Conrad-PetersenMads Pieler KoldingKim AstrupAnders Skaarup Rasmussen Anthony Sinisuka Ginting Jonatan ChristieIhsan Maulana MustofaFirman Abdul KholikMarcus Fernaldi GideonKevin Sanjaya SukamuljoFajar AlfianMuhammad Rian ArdiantoMohammad AhsanHendra Setiawan Uber Cup Akane Yamaguchi Nozomi OkuharaSayaka SatoSayaka TakahashiYuki FukushimaSayaka HirotaMisaki MatsutomoAyaka TakahashiShiho TanakaKoharu Yonemoto Ratchanok IntanonNitchaon JindapolBusanan OngbamrungphanPornpawee ChochuwongJongkolphan KititharakulRawinda PrajongjaiPhataimas MuenwongChayanit ChaladchalamPuttita SupajirakulSapsiree Taerattanachai Sung Ji-hyun Lee Jang-miLee Se-yeonAn Se-youngShin Seung-chanKim So-yeongKim Hye-rinKong Hee-yongBaek Ha-na Lee Yu-lim Chen YufeiHe BingjiaoGao FangjieLi XueruiChen QingchenJia YifanHuang YaqiongHuang DongpingTang JinhuaZheng Yu
Medal table
Thomas Cup Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Final ranking
TeamFinal result 6606+22+38+315Champions 6515+12+21+158Runners-up 5414+13+20+252Eliminated in semi-finals 5414+9+13+149 5 4222+7+20+172Eliminated in quarter-finals 6 4222+10−3 7 42220+3+16 8 42220+2+21 9 3121+1+5+4Eliminated in group stage 10 3121−3−2−14 11 3121−5−9−26 12 3121−5−10−59 13 3030−9−15−114 14 3030−13−27−213 15 3030−15−29−285 16 3030−15−30−373
Uber Cup Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Final ranking
TeamFinal result 6606+22+42+408Champions 6515+10+18+192Runners-up 5414+11+20+259Eliminated in semi-finals 5414+10+23+182 5 4222+5+8+46Eliminated in quarter-finals 6 4222+5+7+103 7 4222+4+7+25 8 4222−1−2−30 9 3121+1−2+21Eliminated in group stage 10 3121−3−3−20 11 3121−5−8−64 12 3121−5−11−87 13 3030−11−21−226 14 3030−13−22−173 15 3030−15−26−231 16 3030−15−30−405
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See also 2017 Sudirman Cup 2018 BWF World Championships
References
External links Tournament Link Official website