The 2020 Badminton Asia Team Championships (also known as the 2020 Smart Badminton Asia Manila Team Championship due to sponsorship reasons) was the third edition of Badminton Asia Team Championships, staged at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila, Philippines, from 11 to 16 February 2020. This championships was organized by the Badminton Asia with Philippine Badminton Association as host organiser and sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation. This tournament served as the Asian qualifiers for the 2020 Thomas & Uber Cup in Denmark. Competitors could also accumulate points as part of qualification process for 2020 Summer Olympics badminton tournament in Tokyo. Indonesia and Japan were the defending champions on men's and women's category respectively. They both successfully defended their title.
Background The 2020 Badminton Asia Team Championships officially crowned the best male and female national badminton teams in Asia and at the same time served as the Asian qualification event towards the 2020 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. Twenty-four teams, consisting of 12 men's teams and 12 women's teams entered the tournament. China and Hong Kong withdrew from the tournament due to the Philippine government's ban on foreigners regardless of nationality from visiting the host country from China due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Competition format The competition begins with a group stage: all participating teams are divided into four groups of two or three teams each. Each team plays each other once, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. A match is won by the team that first wins three games. The eight teams that qualify will be drawn and compete in a knockout format until the final.
Tie-breaker
Team ranking within a group is determined based on the following criteria: number of wins; match difference; game difference; and points difference. If two teams are tied after a criterion is applied, the winner of the match between the two teams will be ranked higher. A draw will be held to determine ranking if there are still teams tied after all criteria are applied.
Hosting On 10 January 2020, Badminton Asia announced that the Philippines were set to host the Badminton Asia Team Championships in Manila and will be using the Rizal Memorial Coliseum as the venue for the entire tournament.
Schedule Day, DateTimePhaseTuesday, 11 February10:00Group Stage16:00Wednesday, 12 February10:00Group Stage16:00Thursday, 13 February10:00Group Stage16:00Friday, 14 February10:00Quarter-finals16:00Saturday, 15 February10:00Semi-finals16:00Sunday, 26 February10:00Finals16:00Note: All times are in Philippines Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
Teams The tournament will feature 10 teams competing in the men's category and 9 teams in the women's category. NationMen'sWomen'sNationMen'sWomen's
Draw Seedings The seeding was based on team ranking on 21 January 2020.Team seeding Men's team
Women's team
Drawn groups The draw was held on 29 January 2020, at the Century Park Hotel in Manila. Both men's and women's team group stage consist of four groups with three teams.
However, due to the withdrawal of China and Hong Kong, the men's tournament groups were re-drawn on 10 February 2020. No redrawing was made for the women's tournament despite the withdrawal of India. Men's team Group A Group B Group C Group D (1) (7) (5) (6) (4) (2) (8) Women's team Group W Group X Group Y Group Z (1) (8) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists Men's teamMohammad AhsanFajar AlfianMuhammad Rian ArdiantoJonatan ChristieMarcus Fernaldi GideonAnthony Sinisuka GintingFirman Abdul KholikShesar Hiren RhustavitoHendra SetiawanKevin Sanjaya SukamuljoCheam June WeiAaron ChiaGoh Sze FeiNur IzzuddinLee Zii JiaLeong Jun HaoNg Tze YongOng Yew SinSoh Wooi YikTeo Ee YiArjun M.R.Subhankar DeyDhruv KapilaSrikanth KidambiPrannoy KumarSatwiksairaj RankireddyB. Sai PraneethLakshya SenChirag ShettyHiroyuki EndoTakuro HokiYugo KobayashiAkira KogaKodai NaraokaKenta NishimotoTaichi SaitoKanta TsuneyamaKoki WatanabeYuta Watanabe Women's team Yuki FukushimaAkane YamaguchiSayaka TakahashiMayu MatsumotoAya OhoriSayaka HirotaWakana NagaharaNami MatsuyamaChiharu ShidaRiko Gunji An Se-youngLee So-heeShin Seung-chanSung Ji-hyunKim So-yeongKong Hee-yongKim Ga-eunSim Yu-jinChang Ye-naKim Hye-rin Soniia Cheah Su YaChow Mei KuanEoon Qi XuanGoh Jin WeiVivian Hoo Kah MunKisona SelvadurayLee Meng YeanPearly Tan Koong LeThinaah MuralitharanYap Cheng Wen Busanan OngbamrungphanChasinee KorepapChayanit ChaladchalamJongkolphan KititharakulNitchaon JindapolPhataimas MuenwongPhittayaporn ChaiwanPornpawee ChochuwongRawinda PrajongjaiSupanida Katethong
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