The 2020 Thomas & Uber Cup (officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st edition of the Thomas Cup and the 28th 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 were played at Ceres Arena in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the first time that Denmark hosted the Thomas Cup and Uber Cup tournament and the first time this event was held in Europe since England 1982. It was due to be played on 15–23 August 2020, but on 29 April 2020 it was postponed to the 3–11 October due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 September 2020 it was again postponed and on 21 December 2020 it was announced that it was postponed to 9–17 October 2021.
China was the defending men's champion team, and Japan was the defending women's champion team. Both were defeated in the final, by Indonesia and China respectively. Both Indonesia and China extended their record of 14 and 15 titles respectively.
Due to non-compliance with the new Anti-Doping rules by World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Indonesia (as Thomas Cup champions) and Thailand (as Uber Cup bronze medal) were not permitted to display their national flag at the Victory Ceremony. Instead, they replaced it with PBSI and BAT flag, respectively.
Host selection Aarhus was named as the host in November 2018 during BWF Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where BWF also decided the host for 18 major events, including Thomas and Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup, BWF World Championships, BWF World Junior Championships, and BWF World Senior Championships in 2019 through 2025.
Qualification Thomas Cup
Means of qualification Date Venue Slot Qualified teams Host country 29 November 2018 Kuala Lumpur 1 2018 Thomas Cup 20–27 May 2018 Bangkok 1 2020 All Africa Team Championships 10–13 February 2020 Cairo 1 2020 Asia Team Championships 11–16 February 2020 Manila 4 2020 European Team Championships 11–16 February 2020 Liévin 3-1 2020 Oceania Championships 13–15 February 2020 Ballarat 1 2020 Pan Am Championships 13–16 February 2020 Salvador 1 World Team Rankings 18 February 2020 Kuala Lumpur 3 World Team Rankings for Europe 1+1 Total 16 Note
Uber Cup
Means of qualification Date Venue Slot Qualified teams Host country 29 November 2018 Kuala Lumpur 1 2018 Uber Cup 20–27 May 2018 Bangkok 1 2020 All Africa Team Championships 10–13 February 2020 Cairo 1 2020 Asia Team Championships 11–16 February 2020 Manila 3 2020 European Team Championships 11–16 February 2020 Liévin 3 2020 Oceania Championships 13–15 February 2020 Ballarat 1 2020 Pan Am Championships 13–16 February 2020 Salvador 1 World Team Rankings 18 February 2020 Kuala Lumpur 3 World Team Rankings for Asia 1 World Team Rankings for Europe 1 Total 16 Note
Draw The original draw for the tournament was conducted on 3 August 2020, at 15:00 MST, at BWF Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. BWF then decided to redraw the tournament after the postponement from 2020 to 2021 this time to be conducted on 18 August 2021, at 15:00 MST also at the BWF headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. The 16 men and 16 women teams will be 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 18 February 2021. Pot 1 contained the top seed Indonesia (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed Japan (which were assigned to position D1) and the next two best teams, China and Denmark. Pot 2 contained the next best four teams, and Pot 3 was for the ninth to sixteenth seeds.
A similar procedure will be applied for the Uber Cup draw, where top seed Japan (which were assigned to position A1), the second seed China (which were assigned to position D1), South 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 per BWF Statutes Section 5.1, Article 16.3: Number of matches won; Match result between the teams in question; Match difference in all group matches; Game difference in all group matches; Point difference in all group matches.
Medal summary Medalists Thomas Cup Anthony Sinisuka Ginting Jonatan ChristieShesar Hiren RhustavitoChico Aura Dwi WardoyoMarcus Fernaldi GideonKevin Sanjaya SukamuljoMohammad AhsanHendra SetiawanFajar AlfianMuhammad Rian ArdiantoLeo Rolly CarnandoDaniel Marthin Shi Yuqi Lu GuangzuLi ShifengWeng HongyangGu JunfengTan QiangHe JitingLiu ChengWang ChangDi ZijianWang YilyuZhou Haodong Viktor Axelsen Anders AntonsenRasmus GemkeHans-Kristian VittinghusVictor SvendsenKim AstrupAnders Skaarup RasmussenMathias ChristiansenLasse MølhedeJeppe BayMads Pieler KoldingFrederik Søgaard Kento Momota Kanta TsuneyamaKenta NishimotoKoki WatanabeKodai NaraokaYuta WatanabeTakuro HokiYugo KobayashiAkira KogaTaichi SaitoYuki Kaneko Uber Cup Chen Yufei He BingjiaoWang ZhiyiHan YueHan QianxiChen QingchenJia YifanZheng YuLi WenmeiLiu XuanxuanXia YutingHuang Dongping Nozomi Okuhara Akane YamaguchiSayaka TakahashiAya OhoriAsuka TakahashiYuki FukushimaMayu MatsumotoChiharu ShidaNami Matsuyama Misaki MatsutomoArisa Higashino An Se-young Kim Ga-eunSim Yu-jinJeon Ju-iShin Seung-chanLee So-heeKim So-yeongKong Hee-yongChae Yoo-jung Ratchanok IntanonPornpawee ChochuwongBusanan OngbamrungphanPhittayaporn ChaiwanSupanida KatethongJongkolphan KititharakulRawinda PrajongjaiPuttita SupajirakulSapsiree TaerattanachaiBenyapa AimsaardNuntakarn Aimsaard
Medal table
Thomas Cup Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
2020 Thomas Cup championsIndonesia Fourteenth title
Final ranking
TeamFinal result 6 6 0 6 +15 +24 +199 Champions 6 5 1 5 +15 +29 +290 Runners-up 5 4 1 4 +9 +18 +222 Eliminated in semi-finals 4 3 1 3 +5 +11 +158 5 4 2 2 2 +5 +10 +172 Eliminated in quarter-finals 6 4 2 2 2 +2 +5 +57 7 4 2 2 2 +2 +4 +30 8 3 1 2 1 −1 +1 +24 9 3 1 2 1 +3 +6 +79 Eliminated in group stage 10 3 1 2 1 −3 −7 −107 11 3 1 2 1 −7 −14 −87 12 2 0 2 0 −8 −17 −172 13 3 0 3 0 −9 −14 −122 14 3 0 3 0 −13 −26 −411 15 3 0 3 0 −15 −30 −332 16 colspan="7"
Uber Cup Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Final ranking
TeamFinal result 6 6 0 6 +23 +42 +387 Champions 6 5 1 5 +18 +35 +345 Runners-up 5 4 1 4 +14 +30 +439 Eliminated in semi-finals 5 4 1 4 +13 +26 +246 5 4 2 2 2 +4 +8 +153 Eliminated in quarter-finals 6 4 2 2 2 0 +1 –10 7 4 2 2 2 −2 0 +11 8 4 2 2 2 −4 −7 −18 9 3 1 2 1 −5 −11 −181 Eliminated in group stage 10 3 1 2 1 −5 −12 −149 11 3 1 2 1 −5 −13 −144 12 3 1 2 1 −7 −16 −155 13 3 0 3 0 −9 −16 −163 14 3 0 3 0 −9 −18 −165 15 3 0 3 0 −11 −20 −175 16 3 0 3 0 −15 −29 −421
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References
External links Tournament Link Official Website – Thomas & Uber Cup Official Website – 2020 Thomas & Uber Cup